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Several contemporary perspectives on development in East Asia are reviewed, including the neoclassical, cultural, statist, & dependency perspectives. An argument is made for the superiority of a world-systems perspective for such analyses, demonstrating how it can (1) expand disciplinary boundaries, (2) trace development over a longer historical period, & (3) employ a larger unit of analysis to examine socialist-capitalist state relations & regional dynamics. Interstate dynamics involved in East Asian development are examined, emphasizing geopolitical factors. 38 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Several contemporary perspectives on development in East Asia are reviewed, including the neoclassical, cultural, statist, & dependency perspectives. An argument is made for the superiority of a world-systems perspective for such analyses, demonstrating how it can (1) expand disciplinary boundaries, (2) trace development over a longer historical period, & (3) employ a larger unit of analysis to examine socialist-capitalist state relations & regional dynamics. Interstate dynamics involved in East Asian development are examined, emphasizing geopolitical factors. 38 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Applying the large‐scale, holistic, and long‐time‐span heuristic devices of world‐systems analysis, this article highlights the crucial role played by regional geopolitics in East Asian development, In regard to large‐scale analysis, this article studies interstate dynamics in East Asia and shows how the strategic locations of China, Japan, and Korea greatly influenced one another's development. This article shows, through holistic analysis, that geopolitics often intertwines with emerging cultural constructs and changing regional dynamics and, through long‐term analysis, that contemporary East Asia must be understood in terms of its pre‐World War II geopolitical development. This study contributes to the existing literature by reintroducing the often neglected geopolitical context into reinterpreting the roles of the market, Confucianism, the state, and dependency in the contours of East Asian development.

China's socialist employment system has undergone radical changes since the 1990s along with enterprise restructuring. Surplus workers have been laid off from state-owned enterprises in large numbers. China's policy program for the management of layoffs in this process of enterprise restructuring has been evaluated as an example of 'good practices in labor administration'. In this paper, we use original field data collected in Beijing, supplemented by additional information from recent Chinese studies, to assess this evaluation. We apply for this purpose the criteria often used by development agencies to evaluate governance systems, namely, accountability, transparency, consistency, participation, & information flow. Using these criteria as a yardstick, we argue that the Chinese experience in reforming their employment system through massive layoffs & re-employment is better characterized as a classic case of 'muddling through' rather than a shining example of 'good governance'. 2 Tables, 1 Figure, 20 References. [Copyright 2004 The Regents of the University of California; published by Elsevier Ltd.]

Through analyzing primary and secondary data, this paper argues that flexible employment practices in Hong Kong are largely employer-driven. This feature is explicable by the low level of government intervention in industrial relations, the development of the labor movement, and the Asian financial crisis that accentuated employers' prerogatives in employment relations.

This article examines the initial labor market outcome and the subsequent mobility process of Chinese immigrants in Colonial Hong Kong using complete work history data and event history modeling. Contrary to the rhetoric that Hong Kong is a capitalist paradise for adventurers, the data showed that immigrants were penalized in their initial class placement, subsequent mobility, and current income attainment. Differences in educational attainment and the lack of transferability of pre-migration human capital partly explained the attainment gap between immigrants and the natives. Yet the disadvantage of immigrants was also embedded in the local economic structure. The process of deindustrialization significantly lowered the chance of immigrants getting good first jobs when entering the labor market. Moreover, since deindustrialization benefited the natives by providing them with more opportunities in the service sector, it inadvertently widened the gap in upward mobility chances between natives and immigrants.