The Resurgence of East Asia

500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

By Kenneth Pomeranz, Mark Selden, Gary G. Hamilton, Peter J. Katzenstein, Peter C. Perdue, Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Ho-fung Hung, Po-keung Hui, Kaoru Sugihara, Wei-An Chang, Mark Selden (Editor), Giovanni Arrighi (Editor), Takeshi Hamashita (Editor)

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East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an epochContinue

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Neo-Smithian Asia

Introduction and final chapter by Arrighi, Selden and others lead in readability and analytical depth. Chapters by Pomeranz, Sugihara and Hamashita are enjoyable and interesting. The rest consists either in empty post-colonial, rhetoric-ridden "anti-eurocentrism" or in second-hand institutionalist p ... (continue)

Introduction and final chapter by Arrighi, Selden and others lead in readability and analytical depth. Chapters by Pomeranz, Sugihara and Hamashita are enjoyable and interesting. The rest consists either in empty post-colonial, rhetoric-ridden "anti-eurocentrism" or in second-hand institutionalist political science.
The message is: East Asia's current ascent has to be conceived as a multi-layered story, merging together different path dependences. The region developed a highly commercialized, small-property based, labour-oriented, benign market system, some peculiar elements of which persisted untill today. This pattern is vividly contrasted with an alleged monopolistic-prone and intrinsically aggressive western capitalism. The "neo-smithian" perspective is clearly stated in every contribute. I disagree with -say- the two thirds of the book, but to me it still represents a valuable point of view, containing good insights about social structures, choice of techniques in pre-modern china and so on.

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