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oapen-20.500.12657-242132024-03-22T19:23:19Z Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market Latham, A.J.H. Kawakatsu, Heita hong kong tan kim ching chinese merchants raw silk dutch thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history 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, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian markets, and those of the wider world. This collection presents captivating snap-shots of trade in specific commodities, alongside chapters comprehensively covering the region. The book covers: China’s relative backwardness, Japanese copper exports, Japan’s fur trade, Siam’s luxury rice trade, Korea, Japanese shipbuilding, the silk trade, the refined sugar trade, competition in the rice trade, the Japanese cotton textile trade to Africa, multilateral settlements in Asia, the cotton textile trade to Britain, and the growth of the palm oil industry in Malaysia and Indonesia. The opening of 2019-11-21 14:36:02 2020-04-01T09:50:06Z 2020-04-01T09:50:06Z 2006 book 1005918 OCN: 1136326693 9780415372077;9780415546928;9781134194087;9781134194070;9781134194032 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24213 eng Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1005918.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781134194087 Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9780203086506 10.4324/9780203086506 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780415372077;9780415546928;9781134194087;9781134194070;9781134194032 open access
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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, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian markets, and those of the wider world. This collection presents captivating snap-shots of trade in specific commodities, alongside chapters comprehensively covering the region. The book covers: China’s relative backwardness, Japanese copper exports, Japan’s fur trade, Siam’s luxury rice trade, Korea, Japanese shipbuilding, the silk trade, the refined sugar trade, competition in the rice trade, the Japanese cotton textile trade to Africa, multilateral settlements in Asia, the cotton textile trade to Britain, and the growth of the palm oil industry in Malaysia and Indonesia. The opening of
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