The rise of Asia : economics, society, and politics in contemporary Asia / Frank B. Tipton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-512) and index.

1. Prologue: East and Southeast Asia and the Changing Balance of World Economic Forces -- 2. The Age of Colonialism and Imperialism: From an External to an Internal Dynamic -- 3. The Role of Markets: Peasant Families, Commercial Agriculture and Protoindustrialization -- 4. Asian Elites in the Economy and in Politics -- 5. The First Asian Tiger: The Transformation of Japan -- 6. Asian Economies, the International Economy and Development in the Interwar Era -- 7. Japanese Imperialism and the Pacific War -- 8. Asian Nationalism -- 9. Economics, Politics and Asian Development in the Postwar World -- 10. How Much Is There to Share? Population, Resources and Productivity -- 11. The Dark Side: Women in Asian Development -- 12. The Developmental State in Asia: Japan and the Four Tigers -- 13. New Tigers, New Dragons, New Giants? The State and Development in China and Southeast Asia -- Epilogue: Can Growth Continue?

For many years, Japan was seen as the peculiar exception in Asia: a highly dynamic economy isolated in an otherwise moribund continent. With the rise of the Southeast Asian and Chinese economies, however, it has now become clear that Asia as a whole is experiencing an extraordinary revolution which will result, within a very few years, in living standards for some countries being on a par with those in the West.