Asia-Pacific Transitions Book

	List of Figures and Tables
	List of Contributors
1	Overview	1
2	Growth and Development in East Asia and the OECD Countries	12
3	The Chinese Kaleidoscope: Chinese Economic Development in the Light of the New Institutional Theories	31
4	On Lao Tzu: His Impact on Chinese Thinking	47
5	Value Systems and Organization of Scholarship and Research in East and West	57
6	Illiberal Democracy in Southeast Asia	64
7	Beyond Dire Straits? Transnationalization and Renationalization in the Southern Growth Triangle	81
8	Land-Use Controls and Economic Freedom: the Diverging Histories of Singapore and Taipei	100
9	Ecological Sustainability	115
10	Pollution Transitions and Economic Growth in Asia	124
11	Social Security Systems in Southeast Asia: Are They Sustainable?	135
12	Stable Expansion for the Chinese Economy: Lessons from International Experience	155
13	The Complexity of Self-Organizing East Asian Networks	171
14	Asia Pacific and European Patterns of Intra- and Extra-Regional Trade	189
15	Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment	207
16	Business Integration across the Hong Kong-Chinese Border: Patterns and Explanations in the Garment Industry	224
17	Illiberal and Successful? In Search of Sustainable Regional Growth in Authoritarian States	239
18	Japanese Transition to Knowledge Arenas: an Infrastructural Perspective	255
19	Emerging Knowledge Networks in Eastern Asia	269
	Index	277