The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year PerspectivesGiovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region 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 assess contemporary developments. |
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Figures | 6 |
maritime Asia and treaty port networks | 17 |
A frontier view of Chineseness | 51 |
a longterm | 78 |
Womens work family and economic development | 124 |
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