Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong,
and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land
mass and less than 4 percent of the world's population. Yet in the
last four decades they have become, with Europe and North America,
one of the three great pillars of the modern industrial world
order. How did they achieve such a rapid industrial transformation?
Why did the four little dragons, dots on the East Asian periphery,
gain such Promethean energy at this particular time in history?
Ezra F. Vogel, one of the most widely read scholars on Asian
affairs, provides a comprehensive explanation of East Asia's
industrial breakthrough. While others have attributed this success
to tradition or to national economic policy, Vogel's penetrating
analysis illuminates how cultural background interacted with
politics, strategy, and situational factors to ignite the greatest
burst of sustained economic growth the world has yet seen.
Vogel describes how each of the four little dragons acquired the
political stability needed to take advantage of the special
opportunities available to would-be industrializers after World War
II. He traces how each little dragon devised a structure and a
strategy to hasten industrialization and how firms acquired the
entrepreneurial skill, capital, and technology to produce
internationally competitive goods. Vogel brings masterly insight to
the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons have
been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other
developing countries have not. No other work has pinpointed with
such clarity how institutions and cultural practices rooted in the
Confucian tradition wereadapted to the needs of an industrial
society, enabling East Asia to use its special situational
advantages to respond to global opportunities.
This is a book that all scholars and lay readers with an
interest in Asia will want to read and ponder.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures |
| Release date: |
March 1993 |
| First published: |
March 1993 |
| Authors: |
Ezra F. Vogel
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 137 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
152 |
| Edition: |
Revised |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-31526-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Industry & industrial studies >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-674-31526-X |
| Barcode: |
9780674315266 |
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