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Product Description: This book examines states and state capacity in four countries that have experienced rapid economic growth over several decades, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam It argues that while modern market forces and transnational corporations exert tremendous pressures, states still matter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created a new, younger and better trained cadre corps...read more