Economic Development of China and Japan

First published in 2005. Some of the most important of the world's problems today concern affairs in Asia, and the relations between Asia and the West. To deal adequately with these problems it is necessary not only to master their more obvious elements as they present themselves today, but to go to their historical roots. In particular it is necessary to study the economic history of modern Asian society. In London the School of Oriental and African Studies, with the generous assistance of the Ford Foundation, began in 1959 a research programme on the economic history of East and South-East Asia. As part of this programme an international study group, composed of scholars from America, Europe and Asia, was held at the School in July 1961. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented to the study group.

C.D. Cowan Professor of the History of South-East Asia School of Oriental and African Studies University of London

Introduction 1. The Kiakhta Trade 2. British-Chinese Steamship Rivalry in China, 1873-85 3. China's Nineteenth Century Industrialization: The Case of the Hanyehping Coal and Iron Company Limited 4. The Chinese Labour Force in the First Part of the Twentieth Century 5. Sino-Soviet Economic Relations: A Re-appraisal 6. A Chinese Discussion on Planning for Balanced Growth: A Summary of the Views of Ma Yin-ch'u and his Critics 7. Factors in Japan's Economic Growth 8. Capital Formation in Pre-War Japan: Current Findings and Future Problems 9. Economic Development and Foreign Trade in Pre-War Japan