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Vogel, Ezra F. was born on July 11, 1930 in Delaware, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph H. and Edith (Nachman) Vogel.
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Sprawled along China's southern coast near Hong Kong, Guangdong is the fastest growing and most envied region in the country. With sixty million people in an area the size of France, the province has been a fascinating laboratory for the transformation of a static socialist economy and social system. Reforms instituted in the late 1970s by Deng Xiaoping have allowed this area to look outward once again and to move “one step ahead” of the rest of China and the socialist world in introducing new political and economic policies. Why did the new strategy come about? What happened in the various parts of Guangdong during the first reform decade? To answer these questions Ezra Vogel―one of the most widely respected observers of Asian economic and social development―returned to Guangdong, the subject of his award-winning book Canton under Communism, for eight months of fieldwork. The first Western scholar invited by a province to make such an extended visit, Vogel traveled to every prefecture in Guangdong and conducted hundreds of interviews to get a true picture of how post-Mao reforms are working. The result is a richly detailed study of a region on the cutting edge of socialist reform. One Step Ahead in China is a groundbreaking book, unique in its detailed coverage of Guangdong, the first socialist dragon to follow in the path of South Korea and Taiwan. Vogel paints a vivid portrait of Guangdong's accelerated development and surveys the special economic zones, the Pearl Delta, Guangzhou, and the more remote areas, including Hainan. He looks at the entrepreneurs and the role of the pervasive Chinese tradition of guanxi, in which friends and relatives of officials receive preferential treatment. He examines the problems of opening up a socialist system and places Guangdong in the context of the newly developing economies of East Asia.
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Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less than 4 percent of the world's population. Yet in the last four decades they have become, with Europe and North America, one of the three great pillars of the modern industrial world order. How did they achieve such a rapid industrial transformation? Why did the four little dragons, dots on the East Asian periphery, gain such Promethean energy at this particular time in history? Ezra F. Vogel, one of the most widely read scholars on Asian affairs, provides a comprehensive explanation of East Asia's industrial breakthrough. While others have attributed this success to tradition or to national economic policy, Vogel's penetrating analysis illuminates how cultural background interacted with politics, strategy, and situational factors to ignite the greatest burst of sustained economic growth the world has yet seen. Vogel describes how each of the four little dragons acquired the political stability needed to take advantage of the special opportunities available to would-be industrializers after World War II. He traces how each little dragon devised a structure and a strategy to hasten industrialization and how firms acquired the entrepreneurial skill, capital, and technology to produce internationally competitive goods. Vogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing countries have not. No other work has pinpointed with such clarity how institutions and cultural practices rooted in the Confucian tradition were adapted to the needs of an industrial society, enabling East Asia to use its special situational advantages to respond to global opportunities. This is a book that all scholars and lay readers with an interest in Asia will want to read and ponder.
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Based on the most up-to-date sources, as well as extensive research and direct observation, Japan as Number One analyzes the island nation's development into one of the world's most effective industrial powers, in terms of not only economic productivity but also its ability to govern efficiently, to eduate its citizens, to control crime, to alleviate energy shortages, and to lessen pollution. Ezra Vogel employs criteria that America has traditionally used to measure success in his thoughtful demonstration of how and why Japanese institutions have coped far more effectively than their American counterparts.
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Vogel, Ezra F. was born on July 11, 1930 in Delaware, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph H. and Edith (Nachman) Vogel.
Bachelor, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1950. Master of Arts, Bowling Green State University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1958.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Kwansai Gakuin, 1980. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wittenberg College, 1981. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Bowling Green State University, 1982.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Maryland, 1983. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Albion College, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Chinese University, Hong Kong, 1992.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Ohio Wesleyan, 1996. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, Lowell, 1996. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Yamaguchi University, 1998.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Monterrey Institute, 2002.
Research fellow, Harvard (for work in Japan), 1958-1960; assistant professor, Yale University, 1960-1961; research associate, lecturer, Harvard University, 1961-1967; professor, Harvard University, since 1967; Henry Ford II professor social science, Harvard University, since 1990; associate director East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1967-1973; director, Harvard University, 1973-1977; chairman council East Asian studies, Harvard University, 1977-1980; director program on United States-Japan relations, Harvard University, 1980-1987; honorary chairman program on United States-Japan relations, Harvard University, since 1988; member of faculty council, Harvard University, 1981-1984; national intelligence officer for East Asia, National Intelligence Council, 1993-1995; director Fairbank Center East Asian Studies, National Intelligence Council, since 1995; director Asia Center, Harvard University, since 1997. Member Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1968-1975, Committee on Scholarly Communication with Peoples Republic China, 1973-1975, Joint Committee Japanese Studies, 1977-1979.
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( Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea,...)
( Sprawled along China's southern coast near Hong Kong, G...)
(A rare achievement--a combination of readability and cred...)
(Book by Vogel, Ezra F.)
(2nd Printing. xiv, 448 pp, illustrations. The jacket is V...)
Trustee Ohio Wesleyan University, 1970-1975, 80-94. Served with Army of the United States, 1951-1953. Member Association Asian Studies (board directors 1970-1972), American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Suzanne Hall, July 5, 1953 (divorced). Children: David, Steven, Eva. Married Charlotte Ikels, November 3, 1979.
