Background
Wilkinson, Endymion Porter was born on May 15, 1941 in Lewes, Sussex, England. Son of George Curwen and Pamela Algernon (Black) Wilkinson.
(From zips to ships, from hi-fi to steel, from cameras to ...)
From zips to ships, from hi-fi to steel, from cameras to cars, from optics to motorbikes, hardly a day goes by without yet another European industry throwing in the sponge, unable to compete with Japan. What are the reasons? Are the Europeans lazy and ignorant of Japan, while the Japanese are industrious and well-informed about Europe? Or are the Japanese operating with unfair advantage? Wilkinson examines the rights and wrongs on both sides and concludes with a series of practical proposals for increasing understanding as well as improving relations between Europe and Japan.
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( This well-documented study discusses the social and ec...)
This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century. The authors show that by the sixteenth century, commercial and handicraft towns linked to national and local markets had already begun to emerge. Urban growth was made possible by increased agricultural production, which in turn stimulated specialization and increased commercialization in the agricultural sector. Another important change in rural society at this time was the emergence of a new stratum of wealthy landlords who managed their estates with wage labor. Case studies of managerial landlords, who form the main focus of this study, are included as well as generalizations drawn from questionnaire materials. Luo Lun and Jing Su wrote this book while they were young researchers at Shandong University in the late 1950s, using data they had gathered in the culturally relaxed period of the Hundred Flowers. In his introduction, Endymion Wilkinson analyzes the authors' thesis and concludes that their Leninist model is inapplicable to premodern Chinese history. The value of this study lies not so much in its conclusion that even without the impact of Western imperialism China would of itself have developed a capitalist society, but rather in the wealth of data the authors present, in this first in-depth study of a relatively advanced region in north China.
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(Examines the right and the wrongs on both sides to blame ...)
Examines the right and the wrongs on both sides to blame for Western decline in the face of the Japanese competition? Are the Europeans and Americans lazy as well as improving European and US ability to cope with the rise of Japan. This book was previously published as "Japan Versus Europe".
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Wilkinson, Endymion Porter was born on May 15, 1941 in Lewes, Sussex, England. Son of George Curwen and Pamela Algernon (Black) Wilkinson.
Bachelor, King's College, Cambridge University, 1964. Master of Arts, King's College, Cambridge University, 1967. Postgraduate, Beijing Institute Languages, 1964—1966.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1970.
Lecturer history Far East University London, 1970—1974. Acting head delegate European Economic Community Delaware, Tokyo, 1974. Head economic and commercial department Delaware Committee European Communities to Japan, 1974—1979.
Principal administrator external relations department European Economic Community Commission, Brussels, 1979—1982, counselor and deputy head European Economic Community delegate to Southeast Asia, 1982—1988. Head Southeast Asia Division European Economic Community Commission, Brussels, since 1988.
(Examines the right and the wrongs on both sides to blame ...)
(From zips to ships, from hi-fi to steel, from cameras to ...)
( This well-documented study discusses the social and ec...)
Member of British Association Chinese Studies, Association Asian Studies.