How Asia Got Rich : Japan and the Asian Miracle [Paperback]

Edith Buchanan Terry (Author), Chalmers A. Johnson (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002 | ISBN-10: 076560356X | ISBN-13: 978-0765603562

This panaoramic work describes how Japan's centuries-old fascination with China has been a platform for its post-war growth strategy as well as a magnet drawing Japan back into a deeper relationship with Asia. The author argues that after years of self-imposed isolation Japan is actively seeking new alliances with its Asian neighbors that may ultimately supplant its Cold War pact with the United States. She tracks the enormous recent outpouring of Japanese investment and official assistance to Asia as part of longstanding efforts to enhance Japanese security. And she suggests that the culmination of these efforts has been the invention of a new capitalist ideology that runs counter to the convergence theories of free market capitalism and creates a powerful current against globalization.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...a thoughtful and thought-provoking in-depth study of the economic evolution of Asian societies and cultures." -- Wisconsin Bookwatch (The Midwest Book Review), December 2002

From the Author

The past 150 years in Asia looks very different if your optic is relations between China and Japan rather than the bilateral relations of either with the US. In "How Asia Got Rich," I have tried to take that history and bring it up to date, particularly in the context of Japan's Cold War and post-Cold War relations with the rest of Asia. The book is about the changing geopolitics of the region, and how Japan's struggle to find a new social and economic paradigm is bound up in its quest for a new role in Asia. The book is also highly personal. I grew up in Asia, as the daughter of a State Department 'missionary' of the free market whose job was to remake Asia in the American model in the 1950s and 1960s. I weave my own family's history into the larger history, as well as my decade of experience covering Japan as a correspondent. The Asian miracle was a composite product: made in America, Japan, and China. I hope that the book will help readers understand more vivi! dly the dynamism as well as the fragility of this process.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076560356X
• ISBN-13: 978-0765603562
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,317,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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