"A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal family life."
"REMINGINING JAPAN: Contributors to this volume include some of the world s most brilliant thinkers from fields as diverse as business, politics, academia, science and technology, journalism and art and design. In the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisisof March 2011, Japan has become a bigger part of the world s consciousness than it has been for years. But Japan also is grappling with other problems that, over the lo ..."
"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 01 May 2006 Pages: 336 Publisher: Mariner Books Essential reading a for anyone INTERESTED in Japanese culture this Unsurpassed Masterwork opens an intriguing window. On Japan Benedict's World War IIera study Paints an Illuminating contrast between the culture of Japan and that of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our cultures differ. making it the ..."
"History has left many scars in the Asia-Pacific. Injuries inflicted generations ago are still fresh in the collective memories of the peoples of the region, hobbling efforts to repair relationships between old adversaries. But recently the spirit of reconciliation seems to have acquired new life. From Korea to Japan to China, longtime enemies are trading apologies and looking ahead.In this remarkably timely volume, Yoichi Funabashi, one ..."
Japan as No. 1 - by EzraVogel -. Published 1980 by Charles Tuttle Publishing - ISBN-13: 978-0-00-470461-6, ISBN: 0-00-470461-4
"The author, a leading Japanese statesman, asserts in this book that the balance of power has shifted and that Japan will no longer play polite sister to the US in world affairs. He claims that Japan could instantly overturn US military superiority by selling its crucial computer missile chip to the USSR. He therefore stresses that it is time for the US corporations to listen to Japanese advice on achieving long-term economic strength in ..."
"In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a hu ..."
The Four Little Dragons(Updated) The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures) by Ezra F. Vogel Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 1993 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-31526-6, ISBN: 0-674-31526-X
" Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less than 4 percent of the world's population. Yet in the last four decades they have become, with Europe and North America, one of the three great pillars of the modern industrial world order. How did they achieve such a rapid industrial transformation? Why did the four little dragons, dots on ..."
Living with China(1st Edition) U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century (American Assembly) by Ezra F. Vogel, American Assembly Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1997 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31734-3, ISBN: 0-393-31734-X
"A fascinating and long-overdue examination of the political, economic, and human rights issues impacting U.S. policy toward China. China will achieve a position of paramount importance in the world economy and the global political order in years to come; yet, the United States holds to no consistent policy with regard to this rising superpower. In the ideological void left by the end of the cold war, media images and expediency seem mor ..."
One Step Ahead in China(Updated) Guangdong under Reform (Interpretations of Asia) by Ezra F. Vogel, Ef Vogel Paperback, 520 Pages, Published 1990 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-63911-9, ISBN: 0-674-63911-1
"Sprawled along China's southern coast near Hong Kong, Guangdong is the fastest growing and most envied region in the country. With sixty million people in an area the size of France, the province has been a fascinating laboratory for the transformation of a static socialist economy and social system. Reforms instituted in the late 1970s by Deng Xiaoping have allowed this area to look outward once again and to move "one step ahead" of th ..."
China and Japan Facing History by Ezra F. Vogel Hardcover, 536 Pages, Published 2019 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-91657-9, ISBN: 0-674-91657-3
One Step Ahead in China(1st Edition) Guangdong under Reform (Interpretations of Asia) by Ezra F. Vogel, Ef Vogel Hardcover, 510 Pages, Published 1989 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-63910-2, ISBN: 0-674-63910-3
"A study of the economic and social development that has occurred in the Guangdong province in China from 1978 to 1988."
japan as number one(1st Edition) lessons for america by Ezra F. Vogel Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1979 by Harper Colophon ISBN-13: 978-0-06-090791-4, ISBN: 0-06-090791-6
"At the same time it was developing into the world's most competitive industrial power. Japan was solving the internal problems that the United States now faces. Isn't it about time. Ezra Vogel asks in this wide-ranging work, that we learn something from the competitor overtaking us?"
China and Japan Facing History (Paperback) by Ezra F. Vogel Paperback, 536 Pages, Published 2021 by Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass. ISBN-13: 978-0-674-25145-8, ISBN: 0-674-25145-8
"" --Alexis Dudden, Times Literary Supplement China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back fifteen hundred years, but today their relationship is strained."
"This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a ..."
"This timely volume examines the rationale for the bilateral U.S.-Japan security relationship in light of post-Cold War realities and the overall East Asian geopolitical environment. Leading analysts on both sides of the Pacific look at the treaty itself, and at existing and potential challenges to the alliance, from the perspective of building a more balanced, sustainable partnership. The discussion is designed to stimulate a much-neede ..."