Japan versus China in the Industrial Race

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Japan versus China in the Industrial Race is written by Wei-Bin Zhang and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349268135 (ISBN 10) and 9781349268139 (ISBN 13).

Why has Japanese industrialisation been so much faster than that of China? The relative economic development of Japan and China from similar nineteenth-century conditions are examined in broad philosophical, social, political and historical perspective. The book challenges a common assumption that Chinese Confucianism does not encourage modernisation, while Japanese Confucianism propelled industrialisation forward. It examines further reasons why Max Weber's judgement, 'the Chinese would be probably more capable than the Japanese, of assimilating capitalism', has not been borne out.