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Cultural Foundations of Learning: East and West. By Jin Li. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv, 385 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $34.99 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2014

Kevin F. Miller*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Heidi Phillips*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Book Reviews—Asia Comparative/Transnational
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 

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3 Particularly Nisbett, Richard E., The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why (New York: Free Press, 2003)Google Scholar.

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5 See Correa, Christopher A., Perry, Michelle, Sims, Linda M., Miller, Kevin F., and Fang, Ge, “Connected and Culturally Embedded Beliefs: Chinese and U.S. Teachers Talk About How Their Students Best Learn Mathematics,” Teaching and Teacher Education 24, no. 1 (2008): 140–53CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 See Flynn, James R., Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.