1. The nature and origin of modern society -- 2. The failure and success of East Asia -- 3. The self-transforming machine -- 4. The discovery of distance -- 5. The face in the mirror -- 6. Institutions that reflect -- 7. Origins of the entrepreneurial outlook -- 8. The age of the demiurge -- 9. Institutions that get things done -- 10. A world in pieces -- 11. The polite alternative -- 12. Institutions dealing with conflicts -- 13. Institutions and revolutions -- 14. Reflection -- 15. Entrepreneurship -- 16. Pluralism -- 17. Europe and China compared -- 18. Foreign challenges, Japanese responses -- 19. Japan and China in a modern world -- 20. The new politics of modernisation
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