Traps Embraced or Escaped: Elites in the Economic Development of Modern Japan and China

Contents
Preface
A Note on Transcription
List of Charts and Tables
Part I Introduction
	1 The Argument
		Endnotes
	2 Elites and Traps
		2.1. The Fundamental Transformation of Labor Surplus Economies
		2.2. Elites Competing and Cooperating
		2.3. Traps
		2.4. The Erosion of Elite Status
		2.5. Co-evolution
		2.6. Appendix: The Fundamental Growth Equation
		Endnotes
Part II Coping with the Western Challenge, 1840–1911
	3 Qing China, 1840–1911
		3.1. Elites in Qing China
		3.2. The Western Challenge
		3.3. Qing Response
		Endnotes
	4 Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
		4.1. In Two Mirrors
		4.2. Elites in Tokugawa Japan
		4.3. The Meiji Restoration
		Endnotes
Part III Traps, 1910–1955
	5 Growth Acceleration in Japan, 1910–1938
		5.1. Agriculture and the Decline of a Rural Elite
		5.2. Infrastructure and Urbanization
		5.3. Manufacturing
		5.4. The Demographic Transition Commences
		5.5. The Disintegration of the fukoku kyōhei Consensus
		Endnotes
	6 Agriculture and Industrialization in Republican China, 1911–1935
		6.1. A Divided Elite
		6.2. Landlordism and Surplus Labor in Rural China
		6.3. Manufacturing Expansion in Shanghai and Manchuria
		6.4. Regional Fissures
		Endnotes
	7 Militarism, 1930–1945
		7.1. A Changing Geopolitical Environment
		7.2. Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in China
		7.3. Japan’s Drive to Hegemony in Asia
		7.4. Surrender
		Endnotes
Part IV Consequences, 1945–2005
	8 Elites in Decline
		8.1. Elites Disappearing and Emerging in Japan, 1945–1960
		8.2. Elites Disappearing and Emerging in China, 1945–1960
		8.3. China in the Japanese Mirror: Similarities and Dissimilarities
		Endnotes
	9 Miracle Growth and Its Aftermath in Japan
		9.1. The Main Characteristics of Miracle Growth
		9.2. Productivity Gain in Agriculture
		9.3. Productivity Gain in Manufacturing
		9.4. Struggling with the Legacy of Miracle Growth, 1975–2005
		Endnotes
	10 Command and Control and Its Aftermath in China
		10.1. The Main Characteristics of Command and Control in China
		10.2. Productivity Gain in Agriculture
		10.3. Productivity Gain in Manufacturing
		10.4. Struggling with the Legacy of the Command and Control Period
		Endnotes
	11 Conclusions
	Statistical Appendix
		Endnotes
	Bibliography
	Index