RICHARD HARVEY BROWN is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and President of the Washington Institute for Social Research. His current research interests are in the comparative political economy and cultural psychology of developing societies and advanced capitalist states. He has written or edited six volumes in this area. Dr. Brown is internationally reknowned as a theorist of the social sciences and has lectured in major universities of Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the United States.WILLIAM T. LIU is a founder of the Center for East-West Studies in Hong Kong. His research interests are in social change and East-West relations as they are associated with international migration. Dr. Liu's academic life includes more than a decade of teaching at the University of Notre Dame, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Social Science Research and Training Institute, and Director of the Center for the Study of Man in Contemporary Society. He has written or edited 8 volumes, and more than 100 papers in scientific journals, chapters in books, and proceedings.

• Preface East Asia as a Region for Economic, Political, and Social Analysis by Richard Harvey Brown Japan, East Asia's Newly Industrializing Countries, and the United States in the World Political Economy by Gavin Boyd Government-Business Relations in Japan: The Case of Financial Deregulation by Frances McCall Rosenbluth Imperatives of Development and the Formation of Social Policy: East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries by Frederic C. Deyo Korea's Experience and Future Prospects of Economic Development by Taewon Kwack The Social Foundations of Institutional Action: Argentina and South Korea in the Postwar Era by Miguel E. Korzeniewicz and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Export-Oriented Industrialization and Political and Class Development: Hong Kong on the Eve of 1997 by B. Karin Chai Thailand the World: The Transformation to Modernity by Eliezer B. Ayal The Ambiguities of Modernization: The Political Class and Regime Change in the Philippines by Albert Celoza China in the Pacific Regional Economy by Gavin Boyd References Index

RICHARD HARVEY BROWN is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and President of the Washington Institute for Social Research. His current research interests are in the comparative political economy and cultural psychology of developing societies and advanced capitalist states. He has written or edited six volumes in this area. Dr. Brown is internationally reknowned as a theorist of the social sciences and has lectured in major universities of Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the United States.WILLIAM T. LIU is a founder of the Center for East-West Studies in Hong Kong. His research interests are in social change and East-West relations as they are associated with international migration. Dr. Liu's academic life includes more than a decade of teaching at the University of Notre Dame, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Social Science Research and Training Institute, and Director of the Center for the Study of Man in Contemporary Society. He has written or edited 8 volumes, and more than 100 papers in scientific journals, chapters in books, and proceedings.

• Preface East Asia as a Region for Economic, Political, and Social Analysis by Richard Harvey Brown Japan, East Asia's Newly Industrializing Countries, and the United States in the World Political Economy by Gavin Boyd Government-Business Relations in Japan: The Case of Financial Deregulation by Frances McCall Rosenbluth Imperatives of Development and the Formation of Social Policy: East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries by Frederic C. Deyo Korea's Experience and Future Prospects of Economic Development by Taewon Kwack The Social Foundations of Institutional Action: Argentina and South Korea in the Postwar Era by Miguel E. Korzeniewicz and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Export-Oriented Industrialization and Political and Class Development: Hong Kong on the Eve of 1997 by B. Karin Chai Thailand the World: The Transformation to Modernity by Eliezer B. Ayal The Ambiguities of Modernization: The Political Class and Regime Change in the Philippines by Albert Celoza China in the Pacific Regional Economy by Gavin Boyd References Index

RICHARD HARVEY BROWN is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and President of the Washington Institute for Social Research. His current research interests are in the comparative political economy and cultural psychology of developing societies and advanced capitalist states. He has written or edited six volumes in this area. Dr. Brown is internationally reknowned as a theorist of the social sciences and has lectured in major universities of Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the United States.WILLIAM T. LIU is a founder of the Center for East-West Studies in Hong Kong. His research interests are in social change and East-West relations as they are associated with international migration. Dr. Liu's academic life includes more than a decade of teaching at the University of Notre Dame, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Social Science Research and Training Institute, and Director of the Center for the Study of Man in Contemporary Society. He has written or edited 8 volumes, and more than 100 papers in scientific journals, chapters in books, and proceedings.

• Preface East Asia as a Region for Economic, Political, and Social Analysis by Richard Harvey Brown Japan, East Asia's Newly Industrializing Countries, and the United States in the World Political Economy by Gavin Boyd Government-Business Relations in Japan: The Case of Financial Deregulation by Frances McCall Rosenbluth Imperatives of Development and the Formation of Social Policy: East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries by Frederic C. Deyo Korea's Experience and Future Prospects of Economic Development by Taewon Kwack The Social Foundations of Institutional Action: Argentina and South Korea in the Postwar Era by Miguel E. Korzeniewicz and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Export-Oriented Industrialization and Political and Class Development: Hong Kong on the Eve of 1997 by B. Karin Chai Thailand the World: The Transformation to Modernity by Eliezer B. Ayal The Ambiguities of Modernization: The Political Class and Regime Change in the Philippines by Albert Celoza China in the Pacific Regional Economy by Gavin Boyd References Index