This study tries to explain the island's remarkable economic and political success and shows that the traditional cultural values that provided the basic motivating force for the operation of the integrated system in the traditional agrarian society is still operative. (DÜI-Sbt)

Among the more than 100 less developed countries in the post-war world, the economic region surrounding mainland China, including Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, have been most successful in their transition growth process. The economists have identified the openness in orientation...