Traps Embraced or Escaped : Elites in the Economic Development of Modern Japan and China.
Title:
Traps Embraced or Escaped : Elites in the Economic Development of Modern Japan and China.
Author:
Mosk, Carl.
ISBN:
9789814287531
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1 online resource (277 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transcription -- List of Charts and Tables -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Argument -- Endnotes -- 2 Elites and Traps -- 2.1. The Fundamental Transformation of Labor Surplus Economies -- 2.2. Elites Competing and Cooperating -- 2.3. Traps -- 2.4. The Erosion of Elite Status -- 2.5. Co-evolution -- 2.6. Appendix: The Fundamental Growth Equation -- Endnotes -- Part II Coping with the Western Challenge, 1840-1911 -- 3 Qing China, 1840-1911 -- 3.1. Elites in Qing China -- 3.2. The Western Challenge -- 3.3. Qing Response -- Endnotes -- 4 Tokugawa and Meiji Japan -- 4.1. In Two Mirrors -- 4.2. Elites in Tokugawa Japan -- 4.3. The Meiji Restoration -- Endnotes -- Part III Traps, 1910-1955 -- 5 Growth Acceleration in Japan, 1910-1938 -- 5.1. Agriculture and the Decline of a Rural Elite -- 5.2. Infrastructure and Urbanization -- 5.3. Manufacturing -- 5.4. The Demographic Transition Commences -- 5.5. The Disintegration of the fukoku kyōhei Consensus -- Endnotes -- 6 Agriculture and Industrialization in Republican China, 1911-1935 -- 6.1. A Divided Elite -- 6.2. Landlordism and Surplus Labor in Rural China -- 6.3. Manufacturing Expansion in Shanghai and Manchuria -- 6.4. Regional Fissures -- Endnotes -- 7 Militarism, 1930-1945 -- 7.1. A Changing Geopolitical Environment -- 7.2. Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in China -- 7.3. Japan's Drive to Hegemony in Asia -- 7.4. Surrender -- Endnotes -- Part IV Consequences, 1945-2005 -- 8 Elites in Decline -- 8.1. Elites Disappearing and Emerging in Japan, 1945-1960 -- 8.2. Elites Disappearing and Emerging in China, 1945-1960 -- 8.3. China in the Japanese Mirror: Similarities and Dissimilarities -- Endnotes -- 9 Miracle Growth and Its Aftermath in Japan -- 9.1. The Main Characteristics of Miracle Growth -- 9.2. Productivity Gain in Agriculture.
9.3. Productivity Gain in Manufacturing -- 9.4. Struggling with the Legacy of Miracle Growth, 1975-2005 -- Endnotes -- 10 Command and Control and Its Aftermath in China -- 10.1. The Main Characteristics of Command and Control in China -- 10.2. Productivity Gain in Agriculture -- 10.3. Productivity Gain in Manufacturing -- 10.4. Struggling with the Legacy of the Command and Control Period -- Endnotes -- 11 Conclusions -- Statistical Appendix -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book explores economic development in East Asia between 1870 and 1953 in terms of escaping or succumbing to four interrelated traps: demographic; political; economic; and, cultural. Demographic traps include Malthusian traps and poor health and longevity (measured by anthropometric indicators and life expectancy). Political traps include both domestic traps - corruption, internal conflict - and external traps, namely geopolitical traps involving foreign powers. Economic traps include poor infrastructure (banks, harbors, roads, railroads, steam shipping, hydroelectric power) or raw materials, or glaring regional variation in per capita income - all significant barriers to industrialization. Cultural traps include restrictions on permissible knowledge, and linguistic barriers to the culture of discourse in science and engineering which restrained the absorbing and diffusion of knowledge from foreign sources. Using Japan and China as examples, this book demonstrates how the four types of traps dynamically interact with one another, and how one of the two countries - Japan - was able to escape from the traps earlier than the other country, China.The book also explores the implications of the argument for post-1950 economic development in East Asia.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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