Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Comparative Consciousness Maps PART ONE. MIDDLE EASTERN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 1. The Rus - Ahmad Ibn Fadlan 2. From The Crusades through Arab Eyes - Amin Maalouf 3. From Napoleon in Egypt - Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti 4. An Imam in Paris - Rifa?ah Al-Tahtawi 5. On the Music of the Maltese and of Others - Ahmed Faris Al-Shidyaq 6. From A Turkish Woman's Impressions - Zeyneb Hanoum 7.
From Orientalism - Edward Said 8. The President of Iran's Letter to the President of the United States - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 9. Democracy Cartoons - Khalil Bendib 10. Empire as Everyday Life, Everyday Life as Imperialism - Mayssoun Sukarieh PART TWO. CHINESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 11. From Buddhist Records of the Western World - Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsiang) 12. Two Poems - Huang Zunxian 13. The Power and Threat of America - Liang Qichao 14.
American Democracy in Crisis and The Collapse of American Capitalism - No-Yong Park 15. The Shallowness of Cultural Tradition - Fei Xiaotong 16. From Americans and Chinese - Francis L. K. Hsu 17. Some Thoughts on Certain Aspects of Modern Western Culture - Zhao Fusan 18. Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money - Interview of Gao Xiqing by James Fallows 19. Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2008 - Xinhuanet PART THREE.
INDIAN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 20. From Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan - Mirza Abu Taleb Khan 21. Remarks on Settlement in India by Europeans - Raja Rammohun Roy 22. My Impressions of England - Keshub Chunder Sen 23. From Poverty and Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji 24. The Condition of England and Civilization -- Mohandas K. Gandhi 25. Passage to and from India - Nirad C.
Chaudhuri 26. Indian Economic Policy - Birendra Narayan Chakravarty 27. The Eurocentric History of Science and Multicultural Histories of Science - Arun Bala 28. From The Thistle and the Drone - Akbar Ahmed PART FOUR. JAPANESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 29. From The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law - Ennin 30. From A Secret Plan of Government and Tales of the West - Honda Toshiaki 31. From As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States - Masao Miyoshi 32.
From The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa - Fukuzawa Yukichi 33. Why Security Treaty? - Yuzuru Katagiri 34. Japan and the United States: Partners or Master and Servant? - Shintaro Ishihara For Further Reading Index.