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Joe Studwell is the founding editor of the China Economic Quarterly. He has written for the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and many other publications. His previous books include "Asian Godfathers," which has sold over 16,000 copies, as well as "The China Dream."

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Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. However, the exhilarating economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world—one half showcasing the most extraordinary development story ever seen, while the other half was a paper tiger. Joe Studwell examines how policies once mocked by economists have produced titans in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China.