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Title

The international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s / edited by Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White.

Publication

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Akita, Shigeru
• White, Nicholas J., 1967-

Description

xiii, 308 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian history, arguing that the economic growth was fuelled by the phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. On the other side, several British imperial historians, have presented their own provocative interpretation of 'Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas', in which they emphasize the leading role of the service sector rather than that of British industry in assessing the nature of British expansion overseas. In order to asses and test these new perspectives, this volume address three key issues. The first is to reconsider the metropolitan-peripheral relationship in Asia, focusing particularly on the role of the sterling area and its implications for Asian economic development. The second is to examine the formation of inter-regional trade relations within Asia in the 1930s and their revival and transformation in the 1950s. The final issue is the comparison of the international order of Asia between the 1930s and the 1950s; to see how the Second world War affected economic continuity. Dealing with issues of trade, economy, nationalism and imperialism, this book provides fresh insights into the development of Asia during the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on the latest scholarship it will prove invaluable to all who wish to better understand the position of countries such as Japan, China and Korea within the wider international order.

Series Statement

Modern economic and social history series

Uniform Title

Modern economic and social history series

Subject

• 1900-1999
• International cooperation
• International Cooperation
• Asia > Economic conditions > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s / Shigeru Akita -- British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s / Yoichi Kibata -- The formation of an industrialization-oriented monetary order in East Asia / Kaoru Sugihara -- The Korean-centric Japanese Imperium and the transformation of the international system from the 1930s to the 1950s / Bruce Cumings -- Sterling, Hong Kong, and China in the 1930s and 1950s / Catherine R. Schenk -- Malaya and the sterling area reconsidered : continuity and change in the 1950s / Nicholas J. White -- Japan's commercial penetration of South and Southeast Asia and the cotton trade negotiations in the 1930s : maintaining relations between Japan, British India, and the Dutch East Indies / Naoto Kagotani -- China's relations with the international monetary system in the 20th century : historical analysis and contemporary implication / Tomoko Shiroyama -- China's economic development and the international order of Asia, 1930s-50s / Toru Kubo -- Continuity and discontinuity from the 1930s to the 1950s in Northeast China : the "miraculous" rehabilitation of the Anshan Iron & Steel Company immediately after the Chinese civil war / Toshiro Matsumoto -- The survival of economic elites during regime transition : government-merchant cooperation in Taiwan's trade With japan, 1950-1961 / Man-houng Lin.

ISBN

• 9780754653417 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0754653412 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009010367

OCLC

• 315239664
• SCSB-10907605

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library