The Rise of a New World Economic Power: Postwar Taiwan

by Y. Dolly Hwang

In the most comprehensive analysis of Taiwan's economic development available to date, Y. Dolly Hwang traces the economic, political, and historical factors that enabled the island to transform itself from a poor country burdened with heavy foreign debt and rampant inflation into an emerging world economic power in a period of only forty years. Hwang explores the role played by the cultural and individual aspirations of the Taiwanese; the improvements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313265186
• ISBN13: 9780313265181
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"