PART ONE: THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION Current Perspectives on East Asian Development PART TWO: INCORPORATION The Decline of the Chinese Empire The Great Escape of Japan PART THREE: REGIONALIZATION Japan and Its Colonial Empire The Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution PART FOUR: ASCENT The Socialist Trajectories of China and North Korea The Corization of Japan The Semiperipherization of the Newly Industrializing Economies PART FIVE: CENTRALITY United States-Japan Hegemonic Rivalry The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong Conclusion