1st Edition

In Search of an East Asian Development Model

Edited By Peter L. Berger, Hsiao Hsin-Huang Michael Copyright 1988
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    The papers collected in this volume were presented at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (formerly the Council on Religion and International Affairs). The conference, " In Search of an East Asian Development Model," was held at the Carnegie Council’s headquarters in New York in June 1985. The purpose was to discover if there is any such thing as an East Asian development model. Was it rooted in common cultural characteristics which arose only in Asia and therefore had no relevance elsewhere, or did the cultural and social characteristics thus revealed have transcendent features, applicable at all times and in all places? Was the recognition of general Asian economic success a post facto situation, an attempt at later rationalizations to fit a logic and inevitability into a process that essentially lurched along without any particular direction?

    An East Asian development model? / Peter L. Berger -- An East Asian developme model / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- The new Asian capitalism / Gustav Papane -- The new Asian capitalism / Lucian W. Pye -- The role of the entrepreneur the new Asian capitalism / S.G. Redding -- The role of Christianity / Jan Swyngedouw -- The applicability of Asian family values to other sociocultura settings / Siu-lun Wong -- The distinctive features of Japanese development Iwao Munakata -- The distinctive features of Taiwan's development / Rong-I W -- The distinctive features of South Korea's development / Kyong-Dong Kim -- The distinctive features of two city-states' development / Pan Eng Fong.

    Biography

    Professor Peter Berger of  Boston University and Professor Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.