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