By: Joe Studwell
By: Joe Studwell
in the 1980s and 1990s many in the west came to believe in the myth of an east-asian economic miracle. japan was going to dominate, then china. countries were called “tigers” or “mini-dragons,” and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise.joe studwell has spent two decades as a reporter in the region, and...
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