[Vogel] explains how government and industry have interacted in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, turning charity case nations into business school case studies. [This book] may be the quickest dose of reality yet for anyone left with a romantic vision of Asia.
   --David E. Sanger, New York Times Book Review

Ezra Vogel...provides a fascinating look at the economies of Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore...This well-documented analysis is recommended as good background reading for those doing business in East Asia and anyone looking for general information about the explosive economic growth in these countries.
   --Greg Jones, China Business Review

What a ride it's been for East Asians, and Vogel captures nicely, in conversational prose, the highlights of the Pacific Rim's 40-year march to industrial greatness in sectors as different as shipbuilding and textiles. It is an achievement that refutes, once and for all, the notion that industrial revolutions only occur in the West.
   --Davis Bushnell, Boston Globe

Ezra Vogel has written an immediately attractive book...[His] account of the spread of industrialization in the four countries is always eminently readable, yet scholarly and authoritative, with just the right amount of sharp detail.
   --Rupert Hodder, Times Higher Education Supplement

Ezra F. Vogel is Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

Read More by Ezra F. Vogel:

• One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong under Reform
• The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989