The Cultural Challenge to Individualism

Issue Date January 2000
Volume 11
Issue 1
Page Numbers 127-137
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About the Author

Hahm Chaibong is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and was formerly a professor at Yonsei University and the University of Southern California. He was also the director of the Social Science Research and Policy Division at UNESCO.

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