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Paperback The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia Book

ISBN: 067431526X

ISBN13: 9780674315266

The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia

(Part of the The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Series)

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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...

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Concise, scholarly study of the post-war "little dragons"

Case studies of the post-war economic development of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. A concise and scholarly work. Though all "Asian," these countries differ, yet each have done well economically.Why so? Vogel offers an answer. I'm writing this, 26 March 1999. East Asia is experiencing extreme economic difficulties, but this does not undo what has occurred nor remove the possibility for future development. If you're doing business in East Asia, Four Little Dragons will provide you with a quick read-in to four major players.
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