Aiming at a mass readership, Vogel examines how it is that the process of industrialization which took the West a century to achieve could in these four areas, all of which started from a weak position at the end of World War Two, be completed within 40 years.
傅高義以一般大眾為對象，探討何以西方費時百年的工業化過程，這幾個戰後處於劣勢的國家及地區卻能在四十年間完成。