China, East Asia and the global economy : regional and historical perspectives / Takeshi Hamashita ; edited by Linda Grove and Mark Selden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamashita, Takeshi, 1943-

Contributor:

Grove, Linda, 1944-

Selden, Mark.

Series:

Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Commerce--History.

China.

China--Economic conditions.

East Asia--Commerce--History.

East Asia.

East Asia--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving relationships between the East Asia regional system and the world economy from the sixteenth century to the present has sent ripples throughout Asian and international scholarship.His research has led him to reconceptualize the position of China first in the context of an East Asian regional order and subsequently within the framework of a wider Euro-American-Asian trade and financial order that was long gestating within, and indeed contributing to the shape of, the world market.This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's oeuvre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work to the English speaking reader.

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 decentralization in Chinese governance : taxation, tribute, and emigration

4. Silver in regional economies and the world economy : East Asia in the sixteenth to 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 centuries

9. Overseas Chinese financial networks : Korea, China, and Japan in the late nineteenth century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-04028-8

0-203-89556-8

1-134-04029-6

9780203895566

OCLC:

846492761