The practitioner has to get beyond his accustomed, Western modes of thinking even to glimpse beneath the surface and understand what kung fu is all about.

Adopting the Western mode of dress was just one manifestation of the Japanese cultural drive to catch up with the West.

But I am surprised that you should think in such a curiously Western mode.

In a whole variety of ways, the novel shows conventional Western modes of thought and behaviour to be absurd and an obstacle to that goal.

Yet, they also conceded that at that point in time, the Western mode of thought was the only method to convey Chinese philosophy.

While the strict, regulated Western mode of thinking called logic was not to be found in China, there was still a form of thinking.

It is similar to the Western Mixolydian mode.

Its modern decorative, practical, and performing arts works span a spectrum ranging from the traditions of Japan to purely Western modes.

Several South Indians use caste names as surnames in the Western mode.

Stylistically, this fiction shows signs of both the Chinese novelistic tradition and Western narrative modes.