Industrialization Meets Globalization: Uncertain Reflections on East Asian Experience

Globalization, Ideology, and Narratives of the East Asian Financial Crisis

In his paper, "Globalization, Ideology, and Narratives of the East Asian Financial Crisis," Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee analyzes the narratives of the East Asian financial "crisis" in 1997-98, arguing that it took place in the course of restructuring the world economy so that the first world would keep its hegemonic power. The East Asian financial crisis spread rapidly to the rest of the globe and in th...

Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences

Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in their GDP per capita levels at the beginning of the 1980s but otherwise significantly different in their economic and social structures. On the one hand we ...

Globalization, industrialization and urbanization in Pre-World War II Southeast Asia

Article history: Received 26 July 2009 Available online 13 August 2010 This article uses new data to analyze the impact on Southeast Asian urbanization of globalization and industrialization in the world economy's core countries between the 1870s and World War II. Dramatic falls in transport costs and free trade, enforced, if necessary, by colonial rule, combined to open vast frontier areas thr...

Globalization and the Developmental State: Reflections on the Asian Financial Crisis

The Canon and Shakespeare's Plays on the Contemporary East Asian Stage

In her article "The Canon and Shakespeare's Plays on the Contemporary East Asian Stage" I-Chun Wang argues that although globalization often refers to the phenomenon of international trade and (im)migrants, globalization has made strong impacts in all aspects of culture and literature. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have attracted attention of East Asian playwrights and di...