ABSTRACT
This book investigates a recurring pattern of roughly 30-year periods of rapid economic growth in each of the East Asian Five: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and China1 in the 50 years from 1951 to 2000, and explores what underlay this recurring pattern. The pattern this study wants to establish and the form of growth it is designed to ascertain have significant implications for many of the ongoing debates and long-held controversies over modern economic development in East Asia. Later in Chapter 1, I will examine in some detail these debates and controversies and explain why this research is necessary as well as useful for a better understanding of the form of East Asian Growth.
