The book Asia Rising was a prescient 1995 forecast of East and South Asia’s continuing rise to economic power, written by the Economist‘s first Asia editor, Jim Rohwer. It is also mostly forgotten because, two years after its publication, East Asia fell into a deep financial and economic crisis that seemed to discredit the thesis. And after that, when China and India’s spectacular growth in the first decade of the new millennium proved Rohwer right in spades, he wasn’t around to say I told you so because he’d died (in a sailing accident) in 2001.