East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth
creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region�s share of world
GDP has risen from less than 10 to 30 percent, a ratio that is set to rise to 40
percent by 2030.
What has made East Asia�s remarkable ascent possible, and what does this
economic rebalancing between East and West mean for world politics? In this
insightful and provocative book, Philip Golub addresses these questions, tracing
the region�s rise from the early modern European-Asian encounter to the
imperial confrontations of the nineteenth century, and China�s state
capitalist turn in the latter