Leo Tak-hung Chan. <i>Western Theory in East Asian Contexts</i>

How Far Behind Are the South Asian Countries in Relation to East Asian

We define as South Asian countries those countries that start with Iran and end with Bangladesh in Asia. Wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “Western” developed and EastAsian countries. Statistical methods such as multidimensional scaling and ...

East Asian Currency Union

This paper analyzes the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia, and empirically estimates welfare effects of a currency union for East Asian economies. Judging from optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, including the symmetry of output and price shocks across countries, commitment to price stability, and...

Specialized Knowledge in Traditional East Asian Contexts: STS and the History of East Asian Science

“STS,” both the expression itself and the scholarly enterprise referred to by that label, has been very enthusiastically received in East Asia—Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China—in recent years. It is probably because the problems posed to society by science and technology have been perceived more acutely in this region. Modern science and technology, mainly developed in the West, was felt foreign...

Are East Asian Versus Ability

The first systematic cross-national study of mathematical abilities was conducted in 1964 (Hu#n, 1967). The results of this study showed that American adolescents were among the most poorly educated students in mathematics in the industrialized world. In the ensuing 30 years, this basic finding has been replicated many times and has been shown to be true for nearly all mathematical domains, fro...

Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?