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The contributors provide a comparative analysis of the modern economic development of Japan and China that are often explained in frameworks of East Asian developmentalism, varies of capitalism or world economic system, and explore their broader significances for the rise and global expansion of modern economy.

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1. Introduction: Modern Economic Development in Time and Place: Why Japan and China?; Xiaoming Huang 2. Mapping Japan and China in World Economic System; Xiaoming Huang 3. Dynamic Comparative Advantage and the Evolution of the Capitalist World; Nobuharu Yokokawa 4. Neoliberal and Classical Developmentalism: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and Japanese Models of Economic Development; Bai Gao 5. Chinese Developmentalism: Beyond the Japanese Model; Marc Lanteigne 6. Japan´s FDI and the Development of Automobile Industry in China: Firms, Production Structure and Government; Katsuhiro Sasuga 7. Development Models and External Constraints: From the Structural Impediments Initiative to Global Imbalances ; Ben Thirkell-White 8. Rural-Urban Divide and the Lewsian Turning Point in Japan and China; Katsuji Nakagane 9. The Forgotten Sector: Institutions, Market Linkages and Concurrent Growth in Rural China and Japan; Jason Young 10. Beyond Ideological Framing and Structural Description: Theorizing Japanese and Chinese Economic Models; Lei Song and Yanbing Zhang 11. Conclusion: China and Japan as Instances of Modern Economic Development; Xiaoming Huang

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Bai Gao, Duke University, USA Xiaoming Huang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Marc Lanteigne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Katsuji Nakagane, University of Tokyo, Japan Sasuga Katsuhiro, Tokai University, Japan Lei Song, Peking University, China Nobuharu Yokokawa, Musashi University, Japan Jason Young, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Yanbing Zhang, Tsinghua University, China ?

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