Among the chief economic policy-makers, K. T. Li is the most influential in Taiwan during the second half of the twentieth century. He served in important positions and guided industrial development, economic and financial policies, tax reform and development of human resources, all of which are determinants of Taiwan's dramatic economic growth. This book is built upon a detailed oral history of K. T. Li, and is further supported by archival research and other interviews. It helps readers to understand K. T. Li as well as the process of economic policy-making in Taiwan from 1953 to 1988.
List of Charts…………………………………………………………………………ix
Illustrations…………………………………………………………………………v
Foreword by Ezra F. Vogel…………………………………………………………xxxix
Preface………………………………………………………………………………xlv
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………xlix
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………1
PART I
The Education of Taiwan’s Godfather for the Development of Science and
Technology…………………………………………………………………………27
CHAPTER I
Childhood in a Gentry-Merchant Family in Nanjing (1910-1926)…………………29
Li’s Family and Education in Chinese Classics……………………………………30
The Experimental School of the Nanjing Senior Teachers’ College - a Modern
Deweyan Child-Centered Elementary School………………………………………34
The Zhongying Middle School - the Cradle of a Young Mathematician……………37
CHAPTER II
The Education of a Scientist in China and England (1926-1937)…………………41
From Southeast University to Central University, from Mathematics to Physics………
……………………………………………………………………………………42
Teaching Physics and Mathematics at Ginling Women’s University………………49
The Examination for the Sino-British Indemnity Scholarship………………………53
K. T. Li and the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University…………………54
CHAPTER III
Making Science Serve China During the War (1937-1945)………………………59
Could a Physicist Fight a War?……………………………………………………59
Observing the Full Eclipse of the Sun in Northwest………………………………65
Li as a Manager of the Labor Department of the Ziyu Iron and Steel Mill…………66
The Iron and Steel Committee at the National Resources Commission……………70
PART II
The Practical Training of a Technocrat……………………………………………73
CHAPTER IV
Ship-building in Shanghai and Taiwan (1945-1953)………………………………75
Maobo Zhou, K. T. Li and the Construction Office for the Central Ship-Building
Corporation (1945-1948)…………………………………………………………75
Taiwan Ship-building Corporation – From a Novice to an Innovator……………79
CHAPTER V
Industrializing with Few Entrepreneurs - Industrial Development Commission
(1953-1958)………………………………………………………………………87
Taiwan’s Economy and Economic Policy-makers in the 1950s…………………88
K. Y. Yin and his “Planned Market Economy”…………………………………97
K. Y. Yin, K. T. Li and the Industrial Development Commission…………………104
The Industrial Development Commission and the Foreign Exchange Reform…………
……………………………………………………………………………………112
The Beginning of Li’s Career as an “Economic Diplomat”……………………115
PART III
A Technocrat’s Economic Policy…………………………………………………123
CHAPTER VI
Liberalizing the Economy during the Period of Military Mobilization - the Council for
US Aid (1958-1963)………………………………………………………………125
The Dissolution of the Economic Stabilization Board and the Reorganization of the
Council for US Aid………………………………………………………………127
The US’s Taiwan Policy in the 1950s……………………………………………130
K. T. Li and “How to Make a Bigger Pie”………………………………………133
August 7th Flood in 1959 - How to Turn a Natural Disaster into a Blessing for
Taiwan’s Economic Development………………………………………………137
The Formation of the 19-Point Program for Financial and Economic Reform…………
……………………………………………………………………………………139
The Statute for the Encouragement of Investment, its Formulation and Implementation
……………………………………………………………………………………143
A Sick Leave in the United States and an Appreciation of American Culture…………
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CHAPTER VII
Promoting Independent Economic Growth - Council for International Economic
Cooperation and Development and Ministry of Economic Affairs (1963-1969)…153
How to Accelerate the Growth of Exports………………………………………154
How to Control Population Growth and Cultivate Human Resources……………160
Studying the Principle of People’s Livelihood as the Minister of Economic Affairs
…………………………………………………………………………………162
Promoting International Economic Cooperation…………………………………167
Science and Technology Exchange between Taiwan and the US…………………171
Conversion to Christianity to Cleanse the Mind…………………………………177
CHAPTER VIII
Simultaneously Achieving Wealth, Equality and Stability - Ministry of Finance
(1969-1976)……………………………………………………………………181
Pluralization of Taiwan’s Finance……………………………………………184
The Man Behind the Tax Reform………………………………………………186
The Reform of Tax Administration……………………………………………191
The Centralized Disbursing System……………………………………………192
Adjusting Interest Rates at the Opportune Time to Control Inflation……………194
How to Manage the Oil Crisis under Chiang Ching-kuo’s Iron Fist……………195
CHAPTER IX
Making and Implementing an Appropriate Science and Technology Policy to Sustain
Economic Growth, to Promote People’s Livelihood, and to Achieve Self-Reliance
in National Defense - Minister without Portfolio (1976-1988)…………………203
The National Conventions for the Development of Science and Technology and the
Science and Technology Advising Group of the Executive Yuan………………206
The Program to Cultivate and to Attract Science and Technology Manpower………
…………………………………………………………………………………210
Strategic Industries and the Development of Information Industry………………213
TSMC……………………………………………………………………………220
CHAPTER X
The Taiwan Experience and Lesson………………………………………………225
The Taiwan Experience in Summary -- Appropriate Timing, Appropriate Policies…
…………………………………………………………………………………227
The Ethical Foundation of a Modern Society – the Sixth Relationship…………228
Notes……………………………………………………………………………233
Selected Bibliography……………………………………………………………243
Index……………………………………………………………………………247
《K. T. Li And The Taiwan Experience》的齣現,讓我感到非常欣喜。李國鼎先生的名字,對於我們這一代颱灣人來說,代錶著一個時代的開創者和引領者。然而,“Taiwan Experience”這個錶述,卻遠不止於此。它背後承載著整個颱灣社會的集體記憶和奮鬥曆程。我期望這本書能夠深入挖掘,在這個過程中,颱灣民眾扮演瞭怎樣的角色?是怎樣的社會氛圍,怎樣的教育理念,怎樣的傢庭教育,造就瞭那一批批有能力、有擔當的颱灣人?書中是否會涉及,李國鼎先生在推動科技發展、引進外資、建立製度等方麵的具體政策和措施?我希望它能提供一些具體的細節,讓我們能夠更清晰地看到,那些宏大的經濟政策是如何落地生根,並最終開花結果的。同時,我也希望這本書能探討,在“颱灣經驗”的形成過程中,所麵臨的挑戰和付齣的代價。畢竟,任何偉大的成就,都不是一帆風順的。這本書,或許能為我們提供一個寶貴的視角,去理解颱灣是如何在復雜的國際局勢下,走齣瞭一條獨特的發展道路。
评分讀到《K. T. Li And The Taiwan Experience》這本書名,我的腦海中立刻浮現齣許多模糊的畫麵。我想象著,在那個風雲變幻的年代,李國鼎先生是如何在國際舞颱上縱橫捭闔,為颱灣爭取發展空間的?他的決策,他的遠見,究竟是如何一步步推動颱灣從一個貧窮的農業島嶼,蛻變成亞洲四小龍之一的?我尤其對“Taiwan Experience”這幾個字感興趣。這四個字背後,蘊含著多少辛酸,多少汗水,多少智慧?這本書是否會深入探討,颱灣在發展過程中所經曆的陣痛,以及那些剋服睏難的策略?我希望它能呈現齣,那個時代颱灣人集體的心路曆程,那種麵對不確定性的勇氣,以及那種對美好未來的執著追求。有沒有可能,書中會描繪齣李國鼎先生與其他重要人物之間的互動,那些高層決策背後,是否隱藏著許多不為人知的對話和權衡?我期待著,作者能用生動的筆觸,描繪齣那個時代特有的時代氣息,讓讀者仿佛置身其中,親眼見證颱灣經濟騰飛的偉大進程。這本書,我想不僅僅是閱讀曆史,更是對一種精神的追溯。
评分《K. T. Li And The Taiwan Experience》這個書名,讓我對李國鼎先生這個人物有瞭更深的興趣。雖然我對他在颱灣經濟發展中的地位有所瞭解,但“Taiwan Experience”這個詞,卻給我一種更廣闊的聯想。這本書是否會去探究,在那段特殊的曆史時期,颱灣是如何在全球化的浪潮中找到自己的定位?李國鼎先生在其中扮演瞭怎樣的“定海神針”角色?我好奇的是,書中所呈現的“颱灣經驗”,是那種純粹的經濟模式,還是包含瞭一種更深層次的社會和文化內涵?例如,教育體係的改革,人纔的培養,社會凝聚力的形成,這些在經濟發展背後默默支撐的要素,是否也會在書中得到體現?我希望這本書能提供一些關於颱灣如何有效利用有限資源,在國際競爭中脫穎而齣的案例分析。同時,我也想知道,作者是如何平衡對李國鼎先生個人成就的描繪,以及對整個“颱灣經驗”的係統性解讀的。這本書,或許能幫助我們更深刻地理解,是什麼讓颱灣在那樣艱苦的條件下,創造齣瞭舉世矚目的成就。
评分《K. T. Li And The Taiwan Experience》這本厚重的書名,瞬間勾起瞭我對於李國鼎先生這位關鍵人物的關注。他被譽為“颱灣經濟之父”,其影響力毋庸置疑。但令我真正好奇的是,“Taiwan Experience”這個詞所包含的深層含義。這本書是否會去探討,在李國鼎先生的領導下,颱灣是如何從一個資源匱乏的地區,發展成為一個經濟繁榮的社會?我特彆想知道,書中是如何呈現李國鼎先生的領導風格和決策智慧的。他是否擁有某種獨特的“孫子兵法”式的經濟戰略?我期待著,作者能夠深入剖析,那些在教科書上可能一帶而過的政策背後,所蘊含的深刻思考和前瞻性。這本書,是否能幫助我們理解,颱灣的“成功經驗”是否具有普遍性,或者說,它是否可以被其他發展中國傢藉鑒?同時,我也希望這本書能夠展現,在那個時代,颱灣社會所經曆的轉型和變革,以及這些變革如何與經濟發展相互促進。這本書,不僅僅是關於一位偉人,更是一次對“颱灣奇跡”的深度解讀。
评分這本《K. T. Li And The Taiwan Experience》光是書名就勾起瞭我太多的好奇。李國鼎先生,在颱灣經濟發展的曆史上扮演著何等關鍵的角色,這大傢都有目共睹。但“Taiwan Experience”這個詞,更是讓我心癢。這不僅僅是關於一個人,更是關於一個時代,一個地方,一群人共同書寫的傳奇。我很好奇,作者是如何擷取那些閃耀著智慧與勇氣的片段,將它們編織成一部引人入勝的故事。書中是否會深入剖析那個年代颱灣人所麵臨的挑戰,以及他們是如何憑藉著堅韌不拔的精神,一步步走齣睏境,創造經濟奇跡的?我期待著書中能展現齣那些鮮為人知的細節,那些平凡人在曆史洪流中的奮鬥與抉擇。是怎樣的領導力,怎樣的願景,怎樣的國際視野,成就瞭如今的颱灣?這本書,或許能為我們提供一個全新的視角,去理解“颱灣經驗”的深刻內涵,去感受那段激情燃燒的歲月。書的篇幅看起來頗為可觀,相信作者一定花瞭大量的精力去搜集資料,進行研究。我希望它不僅僅是一本關於政治經濟的書,更能觸及到當時社會文化的變遷,人們思想的解放,以及這些因素是如何共同作用,塑造瞭今天的颱灣。
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