DOWNLOAD/PDF  The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

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Japan and the four little dragons&#8213Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore&#8213constitute less than 1 percent of the world&#8217s land mass and less than 4 percent of the world&#8217s 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&#8217s industrial breakthrough. While others have attributed this success to tradition or to national economic policy, Vogel&#8217s penetrating analysi

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