Tigers' roar : Asia's recovery and its impact / Julian Weiss, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weiss, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asia.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xx, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2001]

Contents:

Part I A Region in Transition

ASEAN, East Asia and the Pacific Rim: Thoughts on the New Regionalism / Simon S.C. Tay 3

East Asia's Transnational Challenges: The Dark Side of Globalization / Paul J. Smith 11

ASEAN Economic Integration: The Challenges Ahead / Rodolfo C. Severino, Jr. 23

ASEAN, Asia, and the Rise of Regional Identity / Adam Schwarz 28

Australia's Asian Identity / Gerard Henderson 35

Asia Thinks International: One Country's Approach / Tan Chi Chiu 42

Globalization in Asia / Ricardo Saludo 46

Part II Changes in Business

The Rise and Pause of Multinational Corporations in Asia / Franklin L. Lavin 55

Productivity Growth and the Prospects for Asian Global Dominance / A. Gary Shilling 63

Riding the Wave: Japanese Corporations in the Twenty-first Century / Takashi Chiba 77

Different Shades of "Crony Capitalism": Not All Asian Values Are Alike / Tion Kwa 84

Expropriation and the Asian Corporation / Larry H.P. Lang, Leslie Young 88

Lesson Unlearned: Resurgent Asian Exchange Rate Instability / Michael Kurtz 96

Is East Asia's Economy Back on Track? / Junji Ban 103

Towards a Yen Bloc in Asia / C.H. Kwan 108

Part III The High-Tech Sphere

Taiwan's High-Tech Horizons / Brian Kuang-ming Cheng 119

Asian E-Commerce: Waiting for Takeoff / Richard Martin 127

Part IV Defense/Security

Security in the Region: An Asian Perspective / Daljit Singh 135

Dragons' Dance: The Evolving Security Situation in Northeast Asia / Peter Brookes 142

Part V Quest for Civil Societies and Political Harmony

Democracy in the Balance / Roland Rich 149

Part VI Ecology, Energy and Resources

Dateline 2005: Hong Kong Disappears in a Cloud of Particulate Dust / Fred S. Armentrout 159

China, Energy, the Environment, and Climate Change / Seth Dunn 170

The Greening of East Asia: The Quest to Tackle Environmental Dilemmas / Elizabeth Economy 178

Asia's Energy Predicament and Its Implications / Robert A. Manning 183

Asia's Quest for Water / Kog Yue Choong 193

Feeding Asia in the Twenty-first Century / Dennis T. Avery 200

Part VII People, Society, Culture and the Urban Edge

Hong Kong After the Handover: From Elation to Confusion / Chris Yeung 207

Looking Below the Surface: Cultural Subtleties in U.S. and Chinese Negotiations / Deborah A. Cai 213

Confucianism, Modernity, and Restoration in Contemporary China / Mark T. Fung 221

Cross-National Competence and U.S.-Asia Interdependence: The Explosion of Trans-Pacific Civil-Society Networks / Peter H. Koehn 227

Japan's Socio-Cultural Transformation: The Breakdown of the Japanese Dream / Alexei Kral 236

Urbanization in Asia: Prospects for Sustainability / Ooi Giok Ling 244

Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: The Makings of an Asian World City / David Dodwell 250

The Asian Media: Internet Emergence and English Language "Comeback" / Edward Neilan 256

Part VIII Dragons, Tigers and Would-Be Tigers

Reading Japan's Political-Economic Tea Leaves / Richard Katz 265

China's Human Resource Riddle / D.R. Zhou 275

China: Location of the Next Asian Economic Crisis? / Dean Cheng 283

The Chinese Middle Class and the World Economy / Ming Zhang 293

Korea at a Crossroads / Joseph Winder 301

Taiwan Dependence: Trade and Investment Dimensions of Cross-Strait Politics / John Tkacik 305

Islam, Politics, and Regime Change in Wahid's Indonesia / Greg Barton 312.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765607832

0765607840

OCLC:

46240286