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Klappentext In this book a world-system perspective is adopted to explain the economic success and political stability of East Asian development. The authors begin with a review of the world-system perspective, exploring its intellectual heritage, the historical context through which it arose, its basic assumptions and its policy implications. They then examine the particular pattern of development of various East Asian countries including: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, North Korea and Japan. Zusammenfassung In this book a world-system perspective is adopted to explain the economic success and political stability of East Asian development. The authors begin with a review of the world-system perspective! exploring its intellectual heritage! the historical context through which it arose! its basic assumptions and its policy implications. They then examine the particular pattern of development of various East Asian countries including: Hong Kong! Taiwan! China! North Korea and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION Current Perspectives on East Asian Development PART TWO: INCORPORATION The Decline of the Chinese Empire The Great Escape of Japan PART THREE: REGIONALIZATION Japan and Its Colonial Empire The Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution PART FOUR: ASCENT The Socialist Trajectories of China and North Korea The Corization of Japan The Semiperipherization of the Newly Industrializing Economies PART FIVE: CENTRALITY United States-Japan Hegemonic Rivalry The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong Conclusion
