Introduction

Wei-Bin Zhang

A chapter in Japan versus China in the Industrial Race, 1998, pp 1-6 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Why a book comparing Japan and China? Japanese-made products advertise Japan’s economic miracle world-wide. The recent emergence of the overseas Chinese as the stimulus of another economic miracle in East Asia, as well as successful economic reform in the last two decades in mainland China, are changing the general perception about Chinese culture. The recent economic successes of both the overseas and mainland Chinese suggest that it is time for a comparison of Japanese and Chinese cultures. On one hand, Japan and China share a common cultural legacy, Confucianism; on the other hand, Japan has been much quicker than China in transforming a rice-economy into an industrialised one. Until recently this difference has for the most part been explained by assuming that Chinese Confucianism does not encourage modernisation, while Japanese Confucianism contains the ingredients to propel industrialisation forward. This book will challenge that perception.

Keywords: Complexity Theory; Chinese Culture; Qing Dynasty; Dynamic Interdependence; Foreign Invasion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26813-9_1

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