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Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia,
Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.
List of contents
Introduction: Capacious Connections with and within East Asia
David G. Wittner and David B. Sicilia
1. Multinationals and Western Technology Transfer to East Asia, 1870-1914
David B. Sicilia
2. Print Capitalism and Material Culture: Technology Transfer in Early Twentieth-Century China
Tze-Ki Hon
3. The Essence of Being Modern: Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Meiji Japan
David G. Wittner
4. The Evolution of the Exposition Form and its Transfer from the West to Japan
Jeffer Daykin
5. What the Eastern Wind Brings: Rickshaw, Mobility and Modernity in Asia
M. William Steele
6. Zhang Jian and the Transfer of Western Business Methods through Japan into China
Yu Chen
7. Shibusawa Eiichi and the Transfer of Western Banking to Japan
Kimura Masato
8. Korea’s Hansung Bank and the Daiichi Bank: The Path from the West through Japan
Kim Myungsoo
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Contributors
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Edited by David B. Sicilia and David G. Wittner
Summary
Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.
