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This volume brings together an international team of scholars who
examine the development of commercial networks in Asia from the
18th century to the 20th century on a stage that stretches from
Yokohama and Pusan to Istanbul. The studies, based on extensive
archival research, focus on the trading firms and merchant groups
that were the chief actors in the creation of the commercial
networks that crisscrossed Asia, linking the various Asian
economies to each other and to Europe and the Americas. While some
of this work has been available in Japanese, Chinese and Dutch,
this is the first time that such a broad range of essays has been
made available to an English-speaking audience. The thirteen essays
can be roughly divided into two groups. The first group includes
essays that look at the development of large scale networks and
plot the competition between competing indigenous and foreign
merchant groups in the trade in such products as sugar and cotton
yarn in China, cotton goods in Japan, silk in Iran, Japanese
manufactures in Dutch Indonesia and rice and cotton in India. The
second group of essays focuses on the activities of specific firms
as a way to explore the development of trading networks. This group
includes essays that look at the activities of Chinese and Japanese
merchants in Korea, at the growth of a commercial empire built on
the sale of patent drugs in Southeast Asia and at the activities of
European trading firms in Asia. The book should appeal to a
wide-range audience. Most directly concerned are economic
historians
Explores the functioning of commercial networks in Asia, from the mid-19th century when transport and communications revolutions began to change those networks to the 1930s. The essays throw new light on these multi-layered, overlapping regional trading networks that transcend national borders and shaped the structure and development of the modern Asian economy and society.
An analysis of Japan's industrialization in an international,
historical and economic perspective, from the time that her ports
were first opened to foreign trade. First published in 1988, this
title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
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