ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the various East Asian countries' developments with authoritarian systems into some models. It analyzes the logics of their development from the viewpoints of political economy. The chapter examines their contributions to Chinese development model building. It investigates various conditions to realize shared growth with a comparison of the East Asian NIEs model and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) model. The concept of East Asia is substantially different according to the discipline involved, the scholar's position, research topic. The Japanese defeat in the Second World War in 1945 did not lead directly to independence of East Asian countries, because former suzerain states returned to colonize them again. Postwar land reforms contributed to social stability by raising efficiency of agricultural production and the self-sufficiency ratio. Also, agricultural development contributed for mobility of redundant workers and industrial development. Emerging countries after independence encountered various troubles.
