Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- Part IV World regions
- 18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
- 19 East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
- 20 Latin America in world history
- 21 Africa in world history
- 22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
- 23 The economic history of the Pacific
- Index
- References
19 - East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
from Part IV - World regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
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Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- Part IV World regions
- 18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
- 19 East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
- 20 Latin America in world history
- 21 Africa in world history
- 22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
- 23 The economic history of the Pacific
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter, giving pride of place to regional over national and local dynamics, frames the resurgence of East Asia as the most dynamic global region of the world economy. It focuses on the distinctive features of East Asian regionalism past and present while deconstructing certain mythologies that have accompanied spiraling growth rates across the region. The chapter explores East Asia, as the most dynamic region of the world economy, but one riven by geopolitical divisions attendant on a resurgent China bent on challenging a US dominated regional order. This world-regional approach concurs with Bruce Cumings's assessment that a country-by-country analysis is misleading because it 'misses, through a fallacy of disaggregation, the fundamental unity and integrity of the regional effort'. From the perspective of Asian regionalism, however, important continuities spanned the 1945 divide. The postwar resurgence of East Asia was preceded by the rapid economic recovery and growth of key nations in the era of national independence, war, and division.
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