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Pye argues: вЂIn different times and places people have thought of power in very different ways… theories which seek to specify general propositions about power miss the point entirely.’ Lucian W. Pye, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985), p. viii. [400] Ibid., pp. x, 26, 53. [401] Interview with Chih-Yu Shih, Taipei, 1999. [402] Pye, Asian Power and Politics, Chapter 3. [403] Interview with Tong Shijun, Shanghai, April 1999. [404] Pye, Asian Power and Politics, p. 327. Also Deepak Lal, Unintended Consequences (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), pp. 13, 153. [405] Pye, Asian Power and Politics, pp. 62, 80. [406] Interview with Chien Sechin Yung-Xiang, Taipei, March 1999. [407] There is one sphere in which profound cultural differences are accepted and acknowledged in the West, namely the way in which, for example, the nature of Japanese and Korean firms reflects the cultures of their respective countries; Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars, Mastering the Infinite Game: How East Asian Values are Transforming Business Practices (Oxford: Capstone, 1997), especially Chapters 5–7; Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (London: Nicholas Brealey, 1993), Chapter 11; вЂA Global Toyota Faces Dilution of Its Culture’, International Herald Tribune, 15 February 2007. [408] See GГ¶ran Therborn, Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900- 2000 (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 119-26; also Gavin W ...»