Product Description: Two powers in East Asia today stand to define the region's economic and commercial future: Japan, which rose in a spectacular industrial burst to become at present the world's second largest economy; and China, which is rapidly advancing towards a market economy under the watchful eye of the world...read more

Product Description: It all began in 1978 when Deng emerged as China’s preeminent leader and immediately launched a new era of internal reform and expanded contact with the external world. The changes made in those early days not only altered China’s own course but were to profoundly affect the rest of the world, as well...read more

Product Description: It all began in 1978 when Deng emerged as China’s preeminent leader and immediately launched a new era of internal reform and expanded contact with the external world. The changes made in those early days not only altered China’s own course but were to profoundly affect the rest of the world, as well...read more

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Vogel suggests that the methods by which Japan twice modernized its institutions--late in the nineteenth century and again after World War II--may aid America in rethinking its own societal difficulties (view table of contents)

Essays examine American foreign policy towards China and discuss issues that will shape future U.S.-Chinese relations, including trade, commercial diplomacy, and the legacy of Tiananmen Square (view table of contents)

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Japan and the four little dragons - Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore - constitute less than one percent of the world's land mass and less than four percent of the world's population. Yet since the 1950s 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 gain such Promethean energy at this particular time in history? Ezra F. Vogel, provides an explanation of East Asia's industrial breakthough. While others have attributed this success to tradition or to national economic policy, Vogel analysis illuminates how the cultural backgound interacted with politics, strategy, and situational factors to ignite the greatest burst of sustained economic growth the world has yet seen. Vogel describes how each of the four little dragons acquired the political stability needed to take advantage of the special opportunities available to would-be industrializers after World War II. He traces how each little dragon devised a structure and a strategy to hasten industrialization and how firms acquired the entrepreneurial skill, capital, and technology to produce internationally competitive goods. Vogel aims to pinpoint how institutions and cultural practices rooted in the Confucian tradition were adapted to the needs of an industrial society, enabling East Asia to use its special situational advantages to respond to global opportunities.

Product Description: One Step Ahead in China is a groundbreaking book, unique in its detailed coverage of Guangdong, the first socialist dragon to follow in the path of South Korea and Taiwan. 6 maps, 7 tables.

Product Description: A country's ideology-the framework of ideas it uses to make values explicit and its institutions legitimate-shapes the manner in which corporations and managers live and act. If not properly understood, it can blind a manager to problems he cannot avoid; if properly understood, it can alert managers to issues that help them in dealing with government agencies, the public, their workers, and in developing their own business strategy...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the first attempt of its kind to probe the major features of modern Japanese organization that have played such a critical role in Japan's extraordinarily rapid economic development. The contributors include prominent academic business consultants such as Peter Drucker of the United States and Kazuo Nada of Japan...read more

Product Description: Based on the most up-to-date sources, as well as extensive research and direct observation, Japan as Number One analyzes the island nation's development into one of the world's most effective industrial powers, in terms of not only economic productivity but also its ability to govern efficiently, to eduate its citizens, to control crime, to alleviate energy shortages, and to lessen pollution...read more

2nd Printing. xiv, 448 pp, illustrations. The jacket is Very Good +, the spine is slightly sunned.

Product Description: Japan's New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb, Second edition