Out of the East: Transition and Tradition in Asia

by Hiroji Kubota

Book Overview

In recent years the economies of eastern Asia have virtually exploded. What started in Japan and Taiwan after World War II and continued in Hong Kong and Korea, has now touched Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Traditional societies and ways of life exist side by side with, or are giving way to, electronic and manufacturing productivity and consumerism on a scale that is nothing less than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393040887
• ISBN13: 9780393040883
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 12.3"