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EAST ASIA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY by Alvin Y. So and Stephen W.K.
Chiu. Sage Publications, Inc.
Hardcover $49.95. Paperback $24.00. Order through Sage
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In contrast to the literature's focuses on market, culture, state,
and dependency, this volume points to the crucial role of geopolitical and
regional factors in East Asian development. The authors provide a
cohesive review of the world-systems analysis as it applies to East Asia,
exploring its intellectual heritage, the historical context through which
it arose, its basic assumptions, and its policy implications. To
illustrate how this world-system analysis works in East Asia, the authors
examine the historical development of the political economies of Hong
Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, and Japan.
Contents
I. THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION
1. Current Perspectives on East Asian Development
II. INCORPORATION
2. The Decline of the Chinese Empire
3. The Great Escape of Japan
III. REGIONALIZATION
4. Japan and its Colonial Empire
5. The Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution
IV. ASCENT
6. The Socialist Trajectories of China and North Korea
7. The "Corization" of Japan
8. The Semiperipheralization of the NIEs (Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan)
V. CENTRALITY
9. United States-Japan Hegemonic Rivalry
10.The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong
11.Conclusion