| China, East Asia and the Global Economy: Regional and Historical Perspectives Contributor(s): Hamashita, Takeshi (Author), Selden, Mark (Editor), Grove, Linda (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415464595 ISBN-13: 9780415464598 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's ouevre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to the English speaking reader. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: 382.095 |
| LCCN: 2007049226 |
| Series: Asia's Transformations (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving relationships between the East Asia regional system and the world economy from the sixteenth century to the present has sent ripples throughout Asian and international scholarship. His research has led him to reconceptualize the position of China first in the context of an East Asian regional order and subsequently within the framework of a wider Euro-American-Asian trade and financial order that was long gestating within, and indeed contributing to the shape of, the world market. This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's oeuvre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work to the English speaking reader. It examines the many critical issues surrounding China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy, including:
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