
A Selection Of Essays From Takeshi Hamashita's Oeuvre On Asian Trade Is Here Presented To Introduce The Work Of This Important Historian On China And East Asia's Incorporation To The World Economy To The English-speaking Reader. Editors' Introduction: New Perspectives On China, East Asia, And The Global Economy -- The Tribute Trade System And Modern Asia -- Despotism And Decentralization In Chinese Governance: Taxation, Tribute, And Emigration -- Silver In Regional Economies And The World Economy: East Asia In The Sixteenth To Nineteenth Centurys -- The Ryukyu Maritime Network Form The Fourteenth To Eighteenth Centuries: China, Korea, Japan, And Southeast Asia -- Maritime Asian Treaty Port Networks In The Era Of Negotiation: Tribute And Treaties, 1800-1900 -- Foreign Trade Finance In China: Silver, Opium, And World Market Incorporation, 1820s To 1850s China And Hong Kong In The British Empire In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries -- Overseas Chinese Financial Networks: Korea, China, And Japan In The Late Nineteenth Century. Takeshi Hamashita; Edited By Linda Grove And Mark Selden. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [179]-199) And Index.
Page Count:
212
Publication Date:
2008-01-01
ISBN-10:
0203895568
ISBN-13:
9780203895566
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