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East Asia
About: East Asia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17591 publications have been published within this topic receiving 274073 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern Asia.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critical study of the flying geese paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia economic hierarchy and identify major theoretical, conceptual and empirical problems that come with it.
Abstract: It is often claimed that what is popularly known as the "flying geese paradigm" of dynamic comparative advantage has accurately depicted the East Asian catching-up process. This paper presents a critical study of the paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia economic hierarchy. The paper first presents the various versions of the paradigm, and discusses similarities and differences among them. It then evaluates the application of the paradigm to the East Asian regional development context by identifying major theoretical, conceptual and empirical problems that come with it. It is the author's hope that the arguments presented in this paper will contribute to the further enrichment of future discussions on the East Asian development experience.
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TL;DR: This article provided an overview of changing marriage patterns in East, South and Southeast Asia and examined the trend toward later and less marriage throughout Asia, with the important exception of China, and especially in the large cities of the region and among highly educated women.
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of changing marriage patterns in East, South and Southeast Asia. It begins by relating marriage patterns to kinship systems. Differences in kinship systems go a long way towards explaining differences in marriage arrangements and stability of marriages in different parts of Asia, and also the greater resilience of the system of arranged marriage in South Asia than in East and Southeast Asia. The paper then examines the trend toward later and less marriage throughout Asia. This has been particularly marked in East and Southeast Asia, with the important exception of China, and especially in the large cities of the region and among highly educated women. It has shown no signs of slackening; in countries such as Japan, Taiwan and Myanmar, about 20 per cent of women currently in their 20s and 30s could well remain single when they reach their late 40s. Social norms and community and family structures have not yet adapted fully to this remarkable increase in singlehood. Yet at the same time, many young women in some Asian countries are still marrying as teenagers, in many cases below the legal minimum age for marriage. An important set of issues arises from such early marriage patterns. Consanguineous marriage has been widely practiced in some Asian countries. In some countries, it is on the decline, but in others (including Pakistan and Iran) there is little evidence of such a decline. Finally, the paper examines divorce trends. Divorce rates have been rising sharply in many Asian countries, particularly in East Asia, as a result of the strains on marriage and an erosion of the belief that marriages must be preserved at all costs. However, divorce rates remain very low in South Asian countries, where the marriage system does not allow for the “escape route” of divorce, even for dysfunctional marriages.
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TL;DR: In fact, despite different perspectives scholars of different kinds, anthropologists and historians, agree on this basic axiom as discussed by the authors, not because all would wish to agree with it, as such, but because there would be general agreement with the assumptions behind it, or at least tacit agnosticism.
Abstract: PRE-COLONIAL INDIA, LIKE MANY OTHER \"THIRD WORLD\" REGIONS, has traditionally been treated as though a fundamental gulf separated its allegedly static societies from the dynamic and evolving world of Europe. There are many ways of characterizing this problem, but briefly it can be stated that despite different perspectives scholars of different kinds, anthropologists and historians, agree on this basic axiom. The essential statement is that of the cultural anthropologist, not because all would wish to agree with it, as such, but because there would be general agreement with the assumptions that lie behind it, or at least tacit agnosticism. Which, to cut a complex story short, may be summed up in the idea that whatever content these histories and these societies had, it was not simply one of a different detail to that of Europe but rather of a fundamentally different order: in figurative terms, its space and its time are not those of the world which created the Industrial Revolution and the transition to industrial capi-
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15 Nov 2001
TL;DR: SOUTH EAST ASIA Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Vietnam Vietnam as discussed by the authors China Japan Korea (North) Korea (South) Mongolia Taiwan SOUTH PACIFIC Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Islands Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Abstract: SOUTH EAST ASIA Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Vietnam EAST ASIA China Japan Korea (North) Korea (South) Mongolia Taiwan SOUTH PACIFIC Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Islands Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
126 citations