Worlds at War: The 2,500Year struggle between East and West

Anthony Pagden,Professor of History at UCLA published such book by Random House. 625 pp. $35. and reviewed by Richard Bulliet of Columbia University. Published by the Washington Post,Dec.9, 08 on poage C2.

Easterners ,such as ordinary Muslims has had little previous contact with the Europeans since the 13th century. Muslims are regarded as folks in the East.(sic)

Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations" whetted the appetite for anti-Muslim. The East appears to be the enemy of the West with Eastern civilization.

Chinese civilization is known to the world and China is in East Asia or Near West for USA. The Europeans used the term "Far East" as a misnomer for America from viewing the map of the world.

"Beyond East and West" by John C. H. Wu, a distinguished legal scholar from China, is a classic in its own right for the academic community published in the 20th century but will impact the West during the age of globalization in the 21st century.

Washington Post published endowment at the Library of Congress to honor historians Peter Brown as an authority of the Middle East and Romila Thapar as a scholar of India.

The above citation occupies the entire page for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. I hope that Kluge Prize will be awarded to scholar of China since Chna is the most populous nation in terms of making contributions to humanity in the 21st century.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a lifelong student trying to bridge the gap between the East and the West.

December 11, 2008 at 3.45 p.m.