The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia: From Physical Welfare to Subjective Well-Being

Book Overview

For the past three decades, Confucian Asia has been known as a region of wonders. More successfully than any other region in the world, it has expanded its national economies, and integrated those into the global economy. To the rest of the world, this region offers the lesson that poor countries, even with limited natural resources, can achieve rapid economic development and social modernization. To this day, policymakers and scholars have focused...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904813482X
• ISBN13: 9789048134823
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"