Rudi Volti explores how the transfer of foreign technologies contributed to the rapid development of the East Asian economies of China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.

RUDI VOLTI is professor of sociology at Pitzer College and a member of Science, Technology, and Society program of the Claremont Colleges. His publications include Technology, Politics, and Society in China (1982); Society and Technologial Change(2001); The Engineer in Historywith John Rae (2001); and The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society (2000).