Fifty years after the war in Asia
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Fifty years after the war in Asia
(The world reshaped, v. 2)
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1996
- : uk : hard
- : uk : pbk
- : us
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Half a century ago, much of Asia lay in ruins, shattered by the long years of total war. Fifty years later, much of the region has been transformed. Asia today is an economic powerhouse, generating wealth and prosperity on an enormous scale. An increasing number of Asian countries have embraced a market economy and adapted their political structures to accommodate the resulting economic and social changes. The so-called 'Asian Dragons' are roaring ahead. Japan, then Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea led the way, followed more recently by countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, and now Vietnam and the Philippines are set to join the dragon family. Economic revolution in China, combined with the steady liberalization of the Indian economy, will spur future economic growth, not just in Asia but in the world. This volume investigates the economic, military and political aspects of the remarkable developments in this part of the world over the past fifty years. It also looks tentatively into the future, to hazard a guess at what the next fifty years may hold.
Table of Contents
- Notes on the Contributors - Foreword
- Rt.Hon.Christopher Patten - Introduction
- Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold - Field-Marshal Lord Slim and the Burma Campaign
- C.Barnett - 'The Forgotten Army' and the Capture of Mandalay 8-20 March 1945
- Colonel L.J.L.Hill - The War in the Pacific: The Liberation of Manila 1945 - A Philippine Perspective
- R.Connaughton - The War in Korea
- General Sir A.Farrar-Hockley - Postwar Japan
- I.Nish - Selected Statements by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama of Japan Concerning the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of the War - The Security and Arms Control Policies of Japan
- S.Numata - The New World Order and India's Place in it
- S.K.C.Pant - The Future of Asia
- The Hon.Dato Seri Dr M.Bin Mohamed - The Taiwan Experience: Economic Development and Political Democratization
- K.T.Li - The Extension of ASEAN's Model of Regional Security
- M.Leifer - Pacific Security in the Pacific Century?
- D.Shambaugh - Index
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