Making the west obsolete?--Taiwan: past and present--Taiwan: present and future--south Korea: the nation, really half a nation, once voted least likely to succeed--south Korea: the secret of success--Japan: the mold of the past--Japan: yesterday and today--Japan: today, tomorrow, and tomorrow--Singapore: a lion in the southern seas--Malaysia: backing into the future--Indonesia: the spice islands--Australia: the lucky country?--China: the long, long past that shapes the present-and the future--China: everlasting chaos--China: a glimpse of the promised land--China: the problematic future--Hong Kong: the floating island--the Philippines: America's flawed legacy in Asia--the Phiippines: the future?--Thailand: the pivot of southeast asia and Indo-China: the graveyard of empire--Indo-China: hardly ever free and Thailand, always free--the wenty-first: Asia's century?

1. Pacific -- History
2. Asia -- History
3. Asia -- History -- 1945-