Japan versus China in the industrial race
By: Wei-Bin Zhang ; foreword by Åke E. Andersson
Contributors: Andersson, Åke E., 1936-
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780585033815
Subjects: Economic conditions; Industries; History; Comparative economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; General; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1; title: Confucianism in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: The Value System of the Two Rice Economies -- 7 -- 2; title: Tokugawa Japan: Isolation with Confucianism -- 37 -- 3; title: The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War: Learning, Prosperity and Stability -- 54 -- 4; title: From the Meiji Restoration to 1945: Bifurcating into an Industrial Mentality -- 71 -- 5; title: From the Opium War to 1949: Social Chaos and Poverty -- 98 -- 6; title: Japan after World War II: Rapid Economic Growth and Social Change -- 126 -- 7; title: New China and the Cultural Revolution: Destruction of Knowledge -- 152 -- 8; title: China's Economic Reform: Take-offs with Poverty as Solid Bases -- 174 -- 9; title: Japan and China: Divergence versus Convergence-- 189.