Author Description

Zhang (economics, Swedish Institute for Futures Studies) examines why Japan has been so fast and China so slow in industrialization, from philosophical, social, political, economic, and historical perspectives. He covers such subjects as Confucianism in China and Japan, Tokugawa Japan, the Qing Dynasty before the Opium War, the Meiji Restoration, the Opium War, Japan after WW 2, the Cultural Revolution, and China's economic reform. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.