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Greater China and Japan: Prospects for an Economic Partnership in East Asia
Contributor(s): Taylor, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 0415124476     ISBN-13: 9780415124478
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $56.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1996
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Annotation: Greater China seems set to overtake Japan and become Asia's economic giant of the twenty-first century. In the past, Japan's need for raw materials to fuel its modernisation programs led to a series of colonial conquest in Greater China. Defeat in the Pacific war ended Japanese aggression in Chinese territory but left a legacy of bitterness. Robert Taylor explores this ambigous economic and political relationship between Greater China and Japan. Taylor recognizes the mutual supsicions; the Chinese fear of a Japanese military revivial and the Japanese concern over Chinese territorial ambitions. He also sees shared advantages, concluding that there is potential for both Sino-Japanese rivalry and cooperation. This book is an invaluable aid to understanding the economic and political tensions between the two countries and the implications of this relationship to the development of the economic regions of East Asia.
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | International - Economics
- Political Science | International Relations - General
Dewey: 337.510
LCCN: 95042961
Lexile Measure: 1550
Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.38" W x 8.4" (0.66 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
 
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Contemporary relations between Greater China and Japan have been conditioned both by differing responses to the impact of Western colonialism during the mid-nineteenth century and the legacy of the Cold War. There are mutual suspicions: the Chinese fear of a Japanese military revival and the Japanese concern over increasing Chinese economic competition and territorial ambitions.
Robert Taylor recognises the mistrust in Sino-Japanese relations, but also sees shared advantages in this traditionally adversarial relationship. The Chinese are currently modelling their economic strategy on Japan's developmental experience, even though China's policies and institutions have distinctive features and differing agendas. The study also examines the growing momentum towards sub-regional integration; rivalry between Greater China and Japan is giving way to competition between regional economic blocks and corporate entities.
Greater China and Japan explores the ambiguous relationship between the two countries and states that its development is crucial to the future of the region in the twenty-first century.