From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political...

1. Making sense of East Asian transformation -- 2. Danger and opportunity in the transformation process -- 3. States and transformation -- 4. Economic crises and governance failures -- 5. Governing growth and inequality -- 6. Limits to industrialization -- 7. China and global transformation --...