The East Asian High-Tech Drive

The East Asian High-Tech Drive. Edited by Yun-Peng Chu and Hal Hill. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006. 416 pp. $150.00 (cloth). The sustained expansion of the Asian electronics industry has reignited interest in the ways governments promote the development of high-technology industries. If an extended recession has dimmed the aura of Japan's once-dynamic electronics sector, the development of Korean and Taiwanese firms into major players in the world electronics industry, the rise of China as the dominant site for hardware assembly, and the emergence of India as the premier location for software outsourcing have excited great interest and concern.