Bringing together leading scholars from both the east and west, this book offers fascinating insights into the cotton trade, the rice, wheat and shipping industries and the development of trade and finance in East Asia.

Introduction A. J. H Latham and Heita Kawakatsu Part 1 1. International Competition in Cotton Goods in the Late Nineteenth Century: Britain versus India and East Asia Heita Kawakatsu 2. The International Trade in Rice and Wheat since 1868: A Study in Market Integration A. J. H Latham Part 2 3. China: A Microcosm of the World Market for Cotton Manufactures, 1868-1935 D. A Farnie and Heita Kawakatsu 4. "Rice moves to areas where incomes are rising": A Re-Interpretation of Asian Economic Development since 1800 A. J. H Latham 5. Changes in Landlord Economy in the Early Quing Period of China,1644-1840 Shi Zhihong 6. Evolution of the Economic System in China 1796-1978 Mi Ru-Cheng 7. Financial Structure of the East Asian Economic System with Special Reference to Hong Kong and Singapore Takeshi Hamashita 8. Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Late Colonial Indonesia, 1900-1940 J. Thomas Lindblad 9. On the Margins of Asia: The Philippines since 1500 Norman G. Owen 10. Quasi-Vertical Integration, Monopoly, and Japanese Competition in Singapore's pre-World War II Export and Shipping Trades W. G Huff 11. Assessing Economic Growth and Standards of Living in Asia, 1870-1990 Pierre Van Der Eng