Abstract: Liu Yong, as a famousmodernwriter and artist in Taiwan, has created a miracleofthecirculationofhisessays which are always among thebest-sellers in recent years.
Taiwan's economic miracle was helped by the mass of money that the fleeing Nationalists brought with them, by the infrastructure already in place in the island after a half-century of Japanese colonisation, by an American presence underwriting Taiwan's defence, and by ready markets in both Japan and the United States.
Japan was seen as the lead swan in a V-shaped formation of East Asian geese - the new miracle economies that include China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.