Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Jongtae Kim -- Orientalization in globalization : a sociology of the promiscuo us architecture of globalization, c.500-2010 / John M. Hobson -- Global rebalancing : crisis and the East-South turn / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Profit, people, planet and global rebalancing : the environmental im plications of development in Japan, South Korea, China and India / Lynn e Ciochetto -- The west and east Asian national identities : a comparis on of the discourses of Korean Seonjinguk, Japanese Nihonjinron, and Ch inese new nationalism / Jongtae Kim -- East Asian community as hybridiz ation : a quest for East Asianism / Seung Kuk Kim -- Japan, globalizati on, and East Asian dynamism / Hidetaka Yoshimatsu -- New development st age of China after the crisis / Li Peilin -- Global specialization and the China-US economic imbalance / Min Gong -- Whither democracy? : Sout h Korea under globalization revisited / Hyun-Chin Lim and Jin-Ho Jang - - Democratic deepening in South Korea and South Africa in an age of glo bal rebalancing : the potential role of civil society in the age of int ernet / Wiebe Nauta -- Contributors -- Index.