China, East Asia and the Global Economy - Regional and Historical Perspectives

This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's ouevre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to the English speaking reader.

List of contents

1. Editors' Introduction: New Perspectives on China, East Asia and the Global Economy 2. The Tribute Trade System and Modern Asia 3. Despotism and Decentralisation in Chinese Governance: Taxation, Tribute and Emigration 4. Silver in Regional Economies and the World Economy: East Asia in the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries 5. The Ryukyu Maritime Network from the Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia 6. Maritime Asia and Treaty Port Networks in the Era of Negotiation. Tribute and Treaties, 1800-1900 7. Foreign Trade Finance in China: Silver, Opium, and World Market Incorporation, 1820s to 1850s 8. China and Hong Kong in the British Empire in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 9. Overseas Chinese Financial Networks: Korea, China and Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century

About the author

Takeshi Hamashita is Professor in the Faculty of International Communications at Ryukoku University, Japan and Professor in the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Mark Selden is Research Fellow on the East Asia Program at Cornell University, USA and Coordinator of the Asia Pacific e-journal Japan Focus.
Linda Grove is Professor of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan.

Summary

This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's ouevre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to the English speaking reader.

Product details

• Authors: Takeshi Hamashita, Hamashita Takeshi
• Assisted by: Linda Grove (Editor), Grove Linda (Editor), Mark Selden (Editor), Selden Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2008
• EAN: 9780415464581
• ISBN: 978-0-415-46458-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Economic history, International Economics, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General