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Why East Asia? - Civilization Capacity and the Logic Beneath Power Why did East Asia rise so fast-yet remain so fragile? Why do China, Japan, and Korea look modern on the surface, yet repeat the same historical cycle beneath? Why does prosperity so often amplify pressure, accelerate inequality, and weaken social stability? Most explanations point to culture, institutions, or economic models. This book argues that all of them miss the foundation. **The missing variable is ""civilization capacity"" - the thickness of a society's underlying base.** Civilization capacity determines: how many layers of society can coexist how strong or weak a country's public life can be how much pressure a family must absorb how far a middle class can grow how stable prosperity truly is how a state behaves when power expands faster than civilization East Asia is not driven by culture or ideology, but by a much deeper structural force: **A civilization that became powerful before it became layered.** That single fact explains: why governments dominate and public life remains thin why the middle class struggles to stabilize why export-driven economies become unavoidable why education turns into extreme competition why social pressure rises as wealth rises why birthrates collapse why expansion becomes a structural outcome, not a political choice This book shows, step by step, how China, Japan, and Korea-despite different regimes and histories-share the same underlying structure and therefore the same long-term trajectory. **This is not a cultural critique, nor a policy manual. It is a structural map of an entire region.** By introducing ""civilization capacity"" as the foundational variable, this book offers a unifying explanation that development theory, modernization theory, and political science have long lacked. For scholars, students, analysts, and readers seeking clarity about East Asia's future, this book provides the framework that has been missing.

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