The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

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The Resurgence of East Asia
500, and 50 year perspectives
Edited by Giovanni Arrighi,
Takeshi and
Mark Selden
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East Asia-Economic conditions. 2. East Asia-Commerce.
3. East Asia-Economic integration. Giovanni.
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Contents
of figures
List of x
contributors
xin
Introduction: the rise of East in regional and
historical perspective

GIOVANNI TAKESHI HAMASHITA AND MARK

1 Tribute and maritime Asia and treaty port networks
in the era of negotiation,
TAKESHI HAMASHITA
2 A frontier view of Chineseness

3 The East Asian path of economic development: a
perspective 78

4 work, family, and economic development in
Europe and East Asia: long-term trajectories and
contemporary comparisons
KENNETH
5 The importance of commerce in the organization of China's
late imperial economy
G. HAMILTON AND
Contents
6 technology and Asian regionalism comparative
perspective
J.
7 Historical capitalism, East and West
GIOVANNI ARRIGHI. N G AND
MARK SELDEN
334
Figures
and in
1.1 Maritime of 18
1.2 East and routes 22
1.3 Treaty ports and opened cities in East Asia in the 1880s 32
1.4 Trading points along the border 33
3.1 The industrial revolution and industrious revolution 83
3.2 The 85
3.3 survival traditional industry 91
3.4 The choice of industrial structure 97
3.5 Global Lorenz curve (thirty countries) in 1870 and 1950 103
3.6 Global Lorenz curve (199 countries) in 1950 and 1990 104
The snowballing in the rise of East Asia 302
Tables
1.1 Chinas trade with Korea, 45
3.1 World economic 1500-1995 78
3.2
Relative economic the West versus Asia,
79
3.3 Per GDP in selected countries, 1820-1992 (1990 80
3.4 Estimates of in Japan and other Asian countries 86
3.5 Land rent in different countries of the world circa
World War 102
3.6 The rate of comparative perspective
5.1 Estimates of the important commodities in China's internal
trade in 1840
5.2 Exports of Chinese native cloth, 1871-1930 200
7.1 Regional shares of world GNP (and population) 303
7.2 Regional GNPPC as a percentage of "world" 304
7.3 Breakdown East Asian GNPPC as a percentage of "world"
GNPPC 305
7.4 Regional shares of "world" added in manufacturing 306
7.5 account surplus or 307
7.6 Regional shares of the ten largest foreign exchange
reserves 308
Notes on contributors
Giovanni is of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University,
Maryland. His latest books are The Long
Money, Power of Our Times and Chaos and
nance System J.
Chang of Sociology at National Hua University
Taiwan. His books include Economy
sis of Hong Kong, with Chu
Organization, and
and Economy: and Classical
ological Thought (all in
Takeshi Hamashita is Professor of History at the Institute for Southeast Asian
Studies, Kyoto University and the Institute of Oriental Culture,
University. He is of the six-volume Japanese work, Maritime
and numerous works on the political economy of East Asia.
Gary G. Hamilton is Professor of Sociology and the School of
International Studies at the University of Washington. His recent books
include Cosmopolitan Hong Kong and the Diaspora at the
end the 20th The Organization of East Asian Capitalism,
Marco and Nicole and Asian Business Networks.
Cultural Studies at University, Hong Kong.
He the author of Not (2002, Chinese), and co-
editor of the Cultural and Social Studies Translation Series
six volumes, Chinese).
Hung a PhD candidate Sociology at Johns Hopkins Univer
sity. The author of numerous articles in Chinese and English, disser
tation explores the dynamics of early modernity and
politics in China. His "Orientalism and Social Theory: China,
Europe, and the Comparison of Civilizations from to Weber"
was published
xit Notes on contributors
Peter J. is S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of Inter
national Studies at Cornell University, New York. He has written widely
on issues of political economy and national security in both Europe
and Asia. His recent work on regionalism world politics includes
and Tawed Power;
Europe
Peter Perdue is T. T. and Professor of Asian
tions and Professor of History at the Massachusetts of Techno
He teaches courses on Chinese and Chinese
social and economic history, and the Silk Road. He the author of
Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant Hunan, and
the forthcoming West: The Conquest of
1600-1800.
Kenneth is Professor of History at of California,
Irvine. He has written The Great China, Europe and the
of the Modern and co-authored (with Steven Topik) The
World that Trade Created.
Mark Selden is Professor of Sociology at University and Pro
fessional Associate, East Asia Program, Cornell University, New York.
His recent books include, Society: Change, and
J. Perry) and Islands of Discontent: Responses to
Japanese and Laura
is Professor of Economic History at Osaka His
Japanese books include and Development of Trade
(1996) and The Rise of Asia-Pacific Economy (2003). He is currently
working on the of East Asia in global history.
Acknowledgments
volume, seven years in the. making, the product collaboration
involving researchers in the United Stales, Japan, Hong Kong and China.
acknowledge with thanks the support for our work from the American
Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council
which made possible the convening of workshops the Braudel
Center of University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
and Global Studies in Culture, and History
Hopkins University. In the course of these workshops have
from the critical insights and suggestions of numerous scholars including
Mitchell Bernard, Thomas Bray, Christopher Chase-
Dunn, Stephen Chut, Bruce Ramon David Harvey,
Khan, Paul Stuart W. Leslie, Mao, Aihwa
William Rowe, Soma Keith Schoppa, Beverly
Silver, So, Robert Wade, Wang Hui, R. Bin
Wong, Wong, and Wang We gratefully acknowledge the
superb administrative and technical support provided by Donna
of the Fernand Braudel Center and Dr. Felicity of the Institute
for Global Studies in Culture, Power and Johns Hopkins Univer