Preface 1. A New Wave of Industrialization 2. Taiwan 3. South Korea 4. Hong Kong and Singapore 5. Toward an Explanation Notes Index
Ezra F. Vogel (1930-2020) is the author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and of the international bestseller Japan as Number One. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University.
[Vogel] explains how government and industry have interacted in
South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, turning charity case
nations into business school case studies. [This book] may be the
quickest dose of reality yet for anyone left with a romantic vision
of Asia. -- David E. Sanger * New York Times Book Review *
Ezra Vogel...provides a fascinating look at the economies of
Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore... This
well-documented analysis is recommended as good background reading
for those doing business in East Asia and anyone looking for
general information about the explosive economic growth in these
countries. -- Greg Jones * China Business Review *
Ezra Vogel's magnificent synopsis explains how it happened that the
little East Asian dragons have been so successful. Since he has
already written big books about the Japanese accomplishment and the
unfolding capitalist miracle in Guangdong, this work is really part
of a continuing series of studies that have given us a fairly
complete picture of what modern East Asia is all about. Here, his
empirical descriptions are brief, but he manages to include broad
comparisons that tie his arguments neatly together... This
readable, concise book ought to be required reading for all
economists, for all theorists of development, for all politicians
who want to understand the rudiments of what makes some societies
healthy and others not, and for those engaged in business anywhere
in the world where East Asian products are important. -- Daniel
Chirot * Contemporary Sociology *
What a ride it's been for East Asians, and Vogel captures nicely,
in conversational prose, the highlights of the Pacific Rim's
40-year march to industrial greatness in sectors as different as
shipbuilding and textiles. It is an achievement that refutes, once
and for all, the notion that industrial revolutions only occur in
the West. -- Davis Bushnell * Boston Globe *
Ezra Vogel has written an immediately attractive book... [His]
account of the spread of industrialization in the four countries is
always eminently readable, yet scholarly and authoritative, with
just the right amount of sharp detail. -- Rupert Hodder * Times
Higher Education Supplement *
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