Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market / / edited by Heita Kawakatsu, A.J.H. Latham.

• TeilnehmendeR: Latham, A. J. H.,; Kawakatsu, Heita,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)

Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained...

Table of Contents

• Foreword 1. China's Overseas Trade Policy and its Historical Results 1540-1840 2. The Golden Age of Japanese Copper: The Intra-Asian Copper Trade of the Dutch East India Company 3. Inter-Asian Competition in the Fur Market in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 4. The Japanese Acquisition of Maritime Technology from the United Kingdom 5. Inter-Asian Competition in the World Market for Silk, 1859-1929 6. Inter-Asian Competition in the Sugar Market, 1890-1941 7. Rival Merchants: The Korean Market in the Late Nineteenth Century 8. The Rice Trade between Siam and Singapore in the Late Nineteenth Century: Tan Kim Ching and Siam 'Garden Rice' 9. The Rangoon Gazette and Inter-Asian Competition in the Intra-Asian Rice Trade, 1920-1941 10. Japanese Competition in the Congo Basin in the 1930s 11. Shifting Patterns of Multilateral Settlements in the Asia-Pacific Regions in the 1930s 12. Inter-Asian Competition for the British Market in Cotton Textiles: The Political Economy of Anglo-Asian Cartels, c.1932-1960 13. An Edible Oil for the World: Malaysian and Indonesian Competition for the Palm Oil Trade, 1945-2000.