Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000

First Published in 2004. This volume showcases the latest research by a team of international scholars into the economic development of the Asia Pacific region. A geographically and historically diverse range of case studies cover the spectrum of Asian economic activity, from finance to trade and industry, exploring the central theme of the role of the market in intra-Asian economic activity and Asian-Pacific development. Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000 builds on recent breakthroughs in the statistical analysis of Asian economic history, and opens up important new areas for research. Key topics covered include: . a unique standard-of-living comparison, covering the Asian region before 1940 . the role of education in Asian development . technology transfer and economic development . new perspectives on industrialization in Korea and Hong Kong. This book is of fundamental importance to economic historians with a particular interest in the Asia Pacific. It also offers a wealth of original source material, and innovative methodologies, that will be of interest to any economist or historian.

A.J.H.Latham is Senior Lecturer in International Economic History at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written widely on African and Asian economic history and is the author of Rice: The Primary Commodity (Routledge 1998). Heita Kawakatsu is Professor of Economic History at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. He is the author of Japanese Civilisation and the Modern West, and co-editor of Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy.

Introduction PART I 1 Globalization, factor prices and living standards in Asia before 1940 PART II 2 Four revolutions in the textile trade of Asia 1814-1994: the impact of Bombay, Osaka, the Little Tigers and China 3 Europe, China and Japan: transfer of silk reeling technology in 1860-95 4 The colonial origins of Korea's market economy 5 South Korea's late industrialization in comparative historical perspective 6 Export dynamics in Taiwan and Mainland China 1950-2000: a Schumpeterian approach 7 Industrialization and institutional change in Hong Kong 1842-1960 8 Education and development: the experience of the Four Little Tigers PART III 9 Another monetary economy: the case of traditional China 10 Money and growth without development: the case of Ming China 11 California and Nevada minerals in the Pacific Rim 1850-1900 PART IV 12 The transmission of corporate cultures: international Officers in the HSBC Group 13 Chaos and instability: the Asia Pacific rice trade in the 1990