The Trouble With Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia - Couverture souple

Mallet, Victor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006388884 ISBN 13 : 9780006388883

Editeur : HarperCollins Business, 2000

Synopsis

The most frank, readable and detailed account available in the English language of the political, economic, environmental and cultural changes sweeping through south-east Asia.

By the mid-1990s, south-east Asia and its fast-growing economies were the envy of the world. The region’s leaders boasted that their societies, based on hard work and family values, were superior to those of the decadent West. Then came the financial crash of 1997.
The Trouble with Tigers examines in detail the miracle that turned sour, including:
• the debate about the existence of ‘Asian values’
• the relationship between democracy and authoritarianism
• SE Asia’s Generation X – as wild and happy-go-lucky as any Western teenagers
• the region’s political and business leaders
• the environmental disaster befalling the region
• power politics – between Russia, China and the United States – in the region

Victor Mallet talks to politicians, drug addicts, environmentalists, warlords, prostitutes, peasant farmers and captains of industry in a vivid and perceptive study that sheds much-needed light on the complextities of this varied region.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Victor Mallet is South Africa correspondent for the ‘Financial Times’. Prior to that he was deputy Features Editor and South-East Asia correspondent for that newspaper. In 1990, as Middle East correspondent for Reuters, he was the only western journalist in Kuwait City when the Iraqis invaded.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In this lively study of the turmoil in modern south-east Asia, Victor Mallet argues that governments made the mistake of crowing about Asian values when they should have been doing more to manage the fastest industrial revolution the world has yet seen. Far from avoiding pitfalls of corruption, family disintegration and environmental destruction experienced by Europe and the US over the past 150 years, south-east Asia has fallen into the same traps. But the message from the inhabitants of the region encountered by the author is not one of unalloyed gloom. Three decades of economic growth and improved education have spawned a middle class determined to overcome the financial crisis and build democracy and justice.

With a new chapter that brings us up-to-date with the most recent developments in the area, Victor Mallet's wide-ranging and perceptive study sheds much-needed light on the complexities of this varied region.

"The sudden collapse of Far Eastern markets in 1997 took more people by surprise than it
need have done. Anyone who read Victor Mallet's reports in the 'Financial times' could
have sensed what was coming. Week in, week out, he provided clear signals that the
economies of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia had overheated. The writing was on the wall."
THE SUNDAY TIMES

"Expertly addresses the causes and the social and political consequences of South-East
Asia's economic adversity"
LITERARY REVIEW

"Mallet's book is engagingly written and rich in anecdote … his painstaking research brings
Asian society to life."
FINANCIAL TIMES

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Business
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006388884
• ISBN 13: 9780006388883
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Silvia Ruiz Crespo; silviaruizcrespo3@icloud.com; a11.cyberbull@gmail.com; ; Calle otamendi; Madrid; Madrid; 28039; Espagne