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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Anglicized Words Originated from East Asian Languages -- Chapter 1 A Theory of Political Change -- The puzzle -- Political order and its building blocks -- Political change and its outcomes -- The shaping of political order in twentieth-century East Asia -- Legacies of the traditional East Asian political order -- Forms of government and the ruling forces -- Changing of the guards -- Nation and state -- Industrialization, economy, society and the pluralization of the polity -- Political liberalization -- National political culture -- Plan of the book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The Confucian Authority Structure -- Confucianism in politics and state -- Restoring political order -- The Confucian principles -- State and family in the ruling regime -- The ruling regime and contending political forces -- Ascendance in political society -- Mandate of Heaven -- Confucianism and Buddhism in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam -- The traditional East Asian political order -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Claiming Political Authority -- Imperial forces in East Asia -- From hans to an empire -- From an empire to warlordism -- Between empires -- End of imperial state in East Asia? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 State Builds Nation -- The state-nation problem -- Varieties of nationalism -- State in divided nations -- Nation in the new states -- Nation and state in the multination state -- State dominance and civil nation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Changing of the Guards -- The East Asian Spring -- The 1955 system -- People's Democratic Rule -- The Interim Provision regime -- The Yuxin25 regime -- Red star over Saigon -- The Cold War regimes in East Asia -- Notes -- References.

The contributors provide a comparative analysis of the modern economic development of Japan and China that are often explained in frameworks of East Asian developmentalism, varies of capitalism or world economic system, and explore their broader significances for the rise and global expansion of modern economy. Bai Gao, Duke University, USA Xiaoming Huang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Marc Lanteigne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Katsuji Nakagane, University of Tokyo, Japan Sasuga Katsuhiro, Tokai University, Japan Lei Song, Peking University, China Nobuharu Yokokawa, Musashi University, Japan Jason Young, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Yanbing Zhang, Tsinghua University, China ?

The book examines the political and economic developments in East Asia since the end of the Cold War in an attempt to identify a broad pattern of transition, particularly in terms of the reshaping of the state's relations with forces and institutions in economy, politics and domestic- international interactions. The chapters are organised into three parts: I: The state in the new economy; II: The state in the new politics; III: The state in the new global environment. The contributors find a general pattern of the state's withdrawal from these three areas. But it is not simply that the mark

The impressive, and recent, economic development of Japan and China, has led many to seek understanding beyond the theories of the developmental state, varieties of capitalism, and the world economic system. Leading global scholars on Japan and China provide a comparative analysis of the patterns of modern economic development, their political economy, and the historical and global context of their economic development. Japanese and Chinese experiences of modern economic development are larger than individual theories can make sense of. The experiences of China and Japan point to the fundamental challenge nations have faced in organizing economic and political activities under modern conditions.

Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist. Assessing the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon and supported by the most comprehensive data, the book finds that methods of institutional enhancement were at the core of the growth. This institutional enhancement affected state structure and functions, economic policy, corporate arrangements, social structure and relations, individual behaviour, and domestic and international interaction. Each of.