Japan versus China in the industrial race

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Japan versus China in the industrial race

Wei-Bin Zhang ; foreword by Åke E. Andersson

Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-219) and index

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Why has Japanese industrialization been so much faster than that of China? The relative economic development of Japan and China from similar 19th-century conditions are examined in broad philosophical, social, political and historical perspective. The book challenges a common assumption that Chinese Confucianism does not encourage modernization, while Japanese Confucianism propelled for industrialization forward. It examines further reasons why Max Weber's judgement, "the Chinese would be probably more capable than the Japanese, of assimilating capitalism", has not been borne out.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Eue E. Anderson - Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction - Confucianism in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: The Value System of the Two Rice Economies - Tokugawa Japan: Isolation with Confucianism - The Qing Dynasty Before the Opium War: Learning, Prosperity and Stability - From Meiji Restoration to 1945: Bifurcating into an Industrial Mentality - From the Opium War to 1949: Social Chaos and Poverty - Japan after World War II: Rapid Economic Growth and Social Change - New China and the Cultural Revolution: Destruction of Knowledge - China's Economic Reform: Take-offs with Poverty as Solid Bases - Japan and China: Divergence Versus Convergence - Bibliography - Index

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