No prerequisite is required for the course. There will be an in-lecture current issue presentation and discussion, mid-term presentation of project proposal (literature review) and a final term paper. Semester grade is determined by in-lecture presentation (20%), the proposal presentation (20%) and final term paper (60%). Extra bonus will be given for creative class discussion and regular class attendance is expected and will be taken into account in the final grading.

The deadline for the term paper is on the 19th of January, 2018 and all the term papers should be submitted by e-mail (to: ycchuang03@gmail.com) with student number as the file name. Submission of term paper after the deadline will be subject to heavy penalty.

Suggested books:

1. Thompson, Grahame F., 1998, Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge.


2. Thant, Myo, Min Tang, and Hiroshi Kakazu, 1998, Growth Triangles in Asia, 2^nd ed., Oxford University Press.


3. Rugman, Alan M., Gavin Boyd, 1999, Deepening Integration in the Pacific Economies, Edward Elgar.


4. *木村福成、九屋豐二郎、石川幸一，《經略中國，布局大亞洲》，經濟新潮社，2004。


5. Wolf, Charles Jr., K. C. Yeh, Benjamin Zycher, Nicholas Eberstadt, Sung-Ho Lee, 2003, Fault Lines in China’s Economic Terrain, Department of Defense, and the Smith Richardson Foundation, RAND National Defense Research Institute.


6. The Asian Development Bank, 2005, Asian Economic Cooperation and Integration: Progress, Prospects and Challenges.


7. *Wiemer, Calla and Heping Cao, 2004, Asian Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium: China’s Economic Presence, World Scientific Publishing.


8. *Lincoln, Edward J., 2004, East Asian Economic Regionalism, Washington, D.C.: Brooking Institution Press.


9. *Yuzsuf, Ahahid, 2003, Innovative East Asia: the Future of Growth, Washington, D.C., The World Bank.


10. Plummer, Michael G. and Erik Jones, 2006, International Economic Integration and Asia, New Jersey, N.J. : World Scientific.


11. Indermit Gill, Yukon Huang, and Homi Kharas, 2006, East Asian Vision: Perspectives on Economic Development, the World Bank and the Institute of Policy Studies. (http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEASTASIAPACIFIC/Resources/226262-1158262834989/EA_Visions_full.pdf#page=191)


12. Yusuf, Shahid, M. Anjum Altaf, and Kaoru Nabeshima, 2004, Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia, The World Bank.


13. Francois J., G. Wignaraja, and P. Rana, 2009, Pan-Asian Integration: Linking East and South Asia, Asian Development Bank.


14. Asian Development Bank, 2011, Asia 2050: Realizing the Asian Century, http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media/UNIDO_Worldwide/Asia_and_Pacific_Programme/Documents/AsianDevelopmentBankreport_asia-2050.pdf


15. Rosen Daniel H. and Zhi Wang, 2011, The Implications of China-Taiwan Economic Liberalization, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.


16. Lam Peng Er, Qin Yaqing, and Yang Mu, 2012, China and East Asia : after the Wall Street crisis, Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company.


17. Jing Bo-jiun, 2016, Taiwan and Southeast Asia : opportunities and constraints of continued engagement, Baltimore, Maryland : Carey School of Law, University of Maryland.

Useful Website for Asian regional data: http://aric.adb.org/