Strands of Modernization -

Strands of Modernization

The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920
Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0908-8 (ISBN)
51,10 inkl. MwSt
Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry- and transportation-related technology, and business methods. While most scholarship on nineteenth-century technology transfer beyond Europe and North America has focused on the West-to-East movement of artifacts, skills, and knowledge, Strands of Modernization considers the transfer of technology and business methods within East Asia in the period between approximately 1850 and 1920.

Highlighting currents moving in multiple directions, contributors expand upon conventional notions of what qualifies as a "technology" or a "business practice," looking more broadly at skills, systems of technology, tacit knowledge, and the ideologies and other belief systems with which they interact. The core ambition driving Strands of Modernization is to illuminate processes of adaption, versus adoption, that occur when technology and business practices cross sociocultural boundaries.

David B. Sicilia is an associate professor in the Department of History and Henry Kaufman Chair of Financial History at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. David G. Wittner is a distinguished professor in the Department of History at Utica College.

Introduction:  Capacious Connections with and within East Asia
David G. Wittner and David B. Sicilia

1. Multinationals and Western Technology Transfer to East Asia, 1870-1914
David B. Sicilia

2. Print Capitalism and Material Culture:  Technology Transfer in Early Twentieth-Century China
Tze-Ki Hon

3. The Essence of Being Modern: Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Meiji Japan
David G. Wittner

4. The Evolution of the Exposition Form and its Transfer from the West to Japan
Jeffer Daykin

5. What the Eastern Wind Brings: Rickshaw, Mobility and Modernity in Asia
M. William Steele

6. Zhang Jian and the Transfer of Western Business Methods through Japan into China
Yu Chen

7. Shibusawa Eiichi and the Transfer of Western Banking to Japan
Kimura Masato

8. Korea’s Hansung Bank and the Daiichi Bank: The Path from the West through Japan
Kim Myungsoo

Bibliography

Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Japan and Global Society
Zusatzinfo 30 b&w figures, 4 b&w tables
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-4875-0908-1 / 1487509081
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-0908-8 / 9781487509088
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