The Evolving Structure of the East Asian Economic System since 1700

A.J.H. Latham is Professor of Economic History at the University of Wales, Swansea and is co-editor of Intra-Asian trade and the World Market and Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000, both published by Routledge. Heita Kawakatsu is Principal of Shizuoka Art College. Until 2007 he was Professor of Economic History and Vice-Director of the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He is co-editor of Intra-Asian trade and the World Market and Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000, both published by Routledge

Introduction A. J. H Latham and Heita Kawakatsu Part 1 1. International Competition in Cotton Goods in the Late Nineteenth Century: Britain versus India and East Asia Heita Kawakatsu 2. The International Trade in Rice and Wheat since 1868: A Study in Market Integration A. J. H Latham Part 2 3. China: A Microcosm of the World Market for Cotton Manufactures, 1868-1935 D. A Farnie and Heita Kawakatsu 4. "Rice moves to areas where incomes are rising": A Re-Interpretation of Asian Economic Development since 1800 A. J. H Latham 5. Changes in Landlord Economy in the Early Quing Period of China,1644-1840 Shi Zhihong 6. Evolution of the Economic System in China 1796-1978 Mi Ru-Cheng 7. Financial Structure of the East Asian Economic System with Special Reference to Hong Kong and Singapore Takeshi Hamashita 8. Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Late Colonial Indonesia, 1900-1940 J. Thomas Lindblad 9. On the Margins of Asia: The Philippines since 1500 Norman G. Owen 10. Quasi-Vertical Integration, Monopoly, and Japanese Competition in Singapore's pre-World War II Export and Shipping Trades W. G Huff 11. Assessing Economic Growth and Standards of Living in Asia, 1870-1990 Pierre Van Der Eng