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Ezra F. Vogel
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today they need to reset their strained relationship. Ezra Vogel underscores the need for Japan to…
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Vogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons-Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore-have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing…
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One Step Ahead in China is a groundbreaking book, unique in its detailed coverage of Guangdong, the first socialist dragon to follow in the path of South Korea and Taiwan…
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied…
This book constitues the first attempt of its kinds to probe the major features of modern Japanese organization that have played such a critical role in Japan’s extraordinarily rapid economic…
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
A fascinating and long-overdue examination of the political, economic, and human rights issues impacting U.S. policy toward China.
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Ideology and National Competitiveness shows how and why ideology affects the power, role, and behavior of managers in nine countries: Japan, the United States, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, France, the United…
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Ezra F Vogel (Harvard University)
Simplified Chinese edition of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Carl Crow,Ezra F Vogel (Harvard University)
Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings by G. Sapojnikoff. The book has lost…
Ruth Benedict
Originally published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company 1946 –Title page verso.
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Carl Crow
Michel Oksenberg,Carl Riskin,Ezra F. Vogel
The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the most violent manifestation of that contradiction. This volume…
This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William…
This book describes, in vivid detail, the history of the Japanese invasion and occupation and of different parts of China, from the viewpoints of scholars in China, Japan, and the…
Guangyuan Yu
China’s opening up to the world in 1978 following nearly thirty years of communism had profound effects not only on the PRC, but also on the whole world. This invaluable…
A collaborative effort by scholars from the United States, China, and Japan, this volume focuses on the period 1972-1989, during which all three countries, brought together by a shared geopolitical…
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume…
