Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000 (Paperback)

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