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Japan versus China in the Industrial Race

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1998
ISBN
978-1-349-26815-3, 978-1-349-26813-9, 978-0-312-21552-1
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-26813-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22883155 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
X, 226\235
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01

Description

Why has Japanese industrialisation been so much faster than that of China? The relative economic development of Japan and China from similar nineteenth-century conditions are examined in broad philosophical, social, political and historical perspective. The book challenges a common assumption that Chinese Confucianism does not encourage modernisation, while Japanese Confucianism propelled industrialisation 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.

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