COVER STORY - Farming in Northeast Asia is dying out as more and more people give up the land and head for the cities. Those who do stay find it increasingly difficult to make a living. REVIEW correspondents Robert Delfs, Shim Jae Hoon and Julian Baum explain how the migration to the cities is changing the character of the countryside in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

COVER STORY - Driven by hunger, North Koreans no longer look to their leaders to deliver them from famine. Thousands cross into and out of China, breaching the wall of isolation and ignorance that has allowed their Stalinist system to survive. Impressed by the success of China's market reforms, they go home with food, money and new ideas--ideas that may loosen the grip of a regime that threatens ...

Hoon, Shim Jae, (1999)

COVER STORY - Delta Electronics, Acer, Lite-On Technology--the roster of Taiwanese electronic firms with factories in China is rapidly growing. These pillars of Taiwan's economy have shifted nearly a third of their computer-related output to the mainland--with more to come. But as Julian Baum reports, Taipei fears the shift will make Taiwan economically dependent on the mainland, undermining its ...

Baum, Julian, (1999)

COVER STORY - In a region of submerging economies, Taiwan has so far stayed afloat. Now a slowdown is raising fears that the Asian crisis will soon engulf it, too. As Julian Baum and Andrew Sherry report, those worries are probably overdone. The island has underlying strengths that its neighbours can only envy. Plus: why the government's rescue measures are coming under fire, and how venture ...

Baum, Julian, (1999)