Description: Examines the rise of East Asia as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an epoch in regional and world history and providing a vantage point against which to
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"This is an ambitious volume that brings together a group of distinguished historians, sinologists and sociologists...This volume is a valuable contribution to the important 'Great Divergence' debate especially by incorporating a much-needed regional perspective."--EH.Net, Feb 2005