Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1 China's overseas trade policy and its historical results : 1522-1840 / SHI ZHIHONG
2 The golden age of Japanese copper : the intra-Asian copper trade of the Dutch East India Company / RYUTO SHIMADA
3 Inter-Asian competition in the fur market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / CHIKASHI TAKAHASHI
4 The Japanese acquisition of maritime technology from the United Kingdom / MASAMI KITA
5 Inter-Asian competition in the world silk market : 1859-1929 / SHINSUKE KANEKO
6 Inter-Asian competition in the sugar market, 1890-1939 / TAKASHI KUME
7 Rival merchants : the Korean market in the late nineteenth century / SOOYOON LEE
8 Tan Kim Ching and Siam "Garden rice" : the rice trade between Siam and Singapore in the late nineteenth century / TOSHIYUKI MIYATA
9 The Rangoon Gazette and inter-Asian competition in the intra-Asian rice trade 1920-41 / A. J. H. LATHAM
10 Japanese competition in the Congo Basin in the 1930s / KATSUHIKO KITAGAWA
11 Shifting patterns of multilateral settlements in the Asian-Pacific region in the 1930s / MASAFUMI YOMODA
12 Inter-Asian competition for the British market in cotton textiles: the political economy of Anglo-Asian cartels, c. 1932-60 / DAVID CLAYTON
13 An edible oil for the world: Malaysian and Indonesian competition in the palm oil trade, 1945-2000 / SUSAN MARTIN
Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market
