Epilogue

What Can't be Said ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197526187.003.0009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 152-172

Author(s):

Robert H. Sharf

Keyword(s):

East Asian ◽

Language And Thought

In this final chapter we argue that the paradoxes explored in this volume are not merely analytic, but existential. That is to say, the contradictions are not merely the result of pushing up against the limits of language and thought, but, more fundamentally, they emerge from the fact that we are, inescapably, both subjects and objects to ourselves. In exploring the nature and significance of this conundrum, we draw upon various philosophers from outside the East Asian tradition, including Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, and Nagel.

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Generalization through Comparison

Changes by Competition ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198866060.003.0009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 166-182

Author(s):

Hyeong-ki Kwon

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

East Asian ◽

Developmental State ◽

Theoretical Implication ◽

Long Period ◽

Developmental States ◽

National Competitiveness ◽

Flexible Adaptation ◽

Collective Deliberation

This final chapter examines the generalizability of our findings by considering other East Asian developmental state (DS) countries, including Japan, Taiwan, and China. Theoretical implication of this book mainly includes organizational adaptability and institutional changes through elite competition. First, this book claims that the reason why East Asian developmental states, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China, could sustain economic development over quite a long period is not due to some fixed institutional elements such as centralized, cohesive, and strong states. Contrary to the DS literature, elite competition can be beneficial to economic success through collective deliberation and flexible adaptation if they are properly coordinated into collaboration for shared goals like economic development and national competitiveness. In addition, this book concludes that unlike the institutionalist DS literature, this book emphasizes changes by competition to better account for endogenous changes.

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Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300044508 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 62-79

Author(s):

W.J. Boot

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Foreign Relations ◽

East Asian ◽

Modern Period ◽

Cultural Sphere ◽

Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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