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Book SynopsisThe ancient ideology - embedded in its religion, politics, social practice and culture - took pivotal role for historical expansion of East Asian states. This study analyses the mechanism of such economic system and its innate danger in today's 'quasi-modern' world. An essential reading to understand the nature of coming crisis in Asia-Pacific.
Table of ContentsLists of Maps and Illustrations Preface Introduction - The Trend in Eurasia The Rise and Fall of Nazism PART ONE - THE THEORY Economic Crisis in East Asia The Forgotten Ideology The Chinese Mode for Expansion A Centralized Regime and the Economic Cycle The Nature of Chinese Growth The Prototype - Yin-Zhou 'Revolution' The Political Core Chinese Characters and Its Rationalization What is Arch-Bureaucracy? The Original Chinese Pattern The Korean Pattern The Japanese Pattern Resurgence of Anarchic Japan Two Colliding Civilizations The Political Core Trap Control by Human Network Fragmentation of Power Areal Concept Without Strategy End of expansion PART TWO - THE PRACTICAL TREND I - China and the Chinese Economic Area Why Communism Still Flourish? Problem of Socialist Market Economy Advanced Arch-Bureaucracy Chinese Democracy in Taiwan Increasing Uncertainty in Hong Kong Colonial Power in Singapore Successful Immigration to South East Asia II - South Korea A Faltering Idealism Catching up with Japanese Economy Emerging Democracy III - North Korea A Drifting Autocracy The Failure of People's Democracy An Existing Deterrent in the Peninsula Defeatism as a Major Stumbling Block PART THREE - JAPAN IN CRISIS I - The System A Failed Democracy The Invisible Power of Prime Minister The Decisive Role of Emperor Arch-Bureaucracy Revived Naturally No Spirit of Capitalism The Obscure Civil Liberty The Mounting Obstacle in Front of Japan Pleading Without Oath No Real Sovereignty in the East Factional Politics Must Go The Deepening Division of West and East II - The Origin of the Deflationary Spiral The Established Chinese Ideology Persisting Ancient Economic Cycle Bubble that Failed to be Defined Struggling Japanese Economists Banking Bureaucracy and Its Failure Impossible Ideology for Capitalism A Failing 'Big Bang' in Japan British Democracy with a Japanese Touch MOF Rules Japan in Old Style Quantitative Easing of Different Dimensions Global Capitalism in Danger III - An Impossible Reform The Mandate Given Yasukuni Shrine and Chinese Anger Who Will Take the Responsibility This Time? Surprise Visit to Pyongyang Manifesto For Delay and No Decision The Road Corporation Fiasco A Perception Gap at Postal Corporation The 'Main Castle' Intact Conflicts Amongst Chinese Ideological States Unstoppable Global Democratization PART FOUR - THE CHANGE The Land of Human Gods Factionalism Forbids the Japanese Unification Political Basis of Modern China A Sense of Crisis The Roman Empire and Christianity Ideological Confrontation in Eurasia European Expansion Britain Led the Modern Economy American Growth America on the Alert US Politics Needs a Reinforcement No Valid Social Science The Global Source of Intelligence Can Japan take the Responsibility? How long Must This Ideology Continue? Japan as the Cornerstone for Global Democracy NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
