Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 [Hardcover]

Modern Asian economic history has often been written in terms of Western impact and Asia's response to it. This volume argues that the growth of intra-regional trade, migration, and capital and money flows was a crucial factor that determined the course of East Asian economic development.

Kaoru Sugihara has been Professorial Research Associate in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London, since July 1996, as well as Professor of Economic History in the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. He is Visiting Scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University until March 2004.