East Meets West. In her recent book The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Gap, author Gish Jen gathers stories and anecdotes for a provocative and important cultural study on the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society. Jen reveals how this difference shapes what we perceive and remember and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Book signing to follow.
