Four Little Dragons The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia

Name: Four Little Dragons The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia
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ISBN: 9780674315266

ISBN-10: 067431526X

ISBN-13: 9780674315266

Edition: 1991

Authors: Ezra F. Vogel

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.25" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Ezra F. Vogel is Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University and former Director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Harvard University Asia Center.



Preface



A New Wave of Industrialization



Taiwan



South Korea



Hong Kong and Singapore



Toward an Explanation


Notes


Index