While it is futile to search for any ‘magic policy recipe’ automatically yielding industrialization, the contributions to the book, we argue, do indeed help in identifying some basic ingredients and principles that successful policy arrangements historically had and have in common. In this...

List of abbreviations -- A note on romanization -- Introduction: science policy in a developmental state -- Starts and stops: the Kuomintang and science and technology, 1927-1958 -- The first push: domestic and foreign advocates -- The state gets interested: the lure of economic development --...