The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives (Asia's Transformations)

369 Pages·2003·1.19 MB·english

by  Giovanni Arrighi

The Resurgence of East Asia
East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift
with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asiaexamines the rise
of the region as one of the world’s economic power centers from three
temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an
epoch in regional and world history and providing a vantage point against
which to assess contemporary developments.
The three perspectives each have something valuable to offer to the
understanding of the present rise of East Asia and the modern world
system, and their combination offers a contrast to the national and global
studies that have recently dominated the literatures of development and
globalization. In offering a comprehensive understanding of the present
East Asian dynamic in light of the region’s historical heritage, the authors
present several alternative hypotheses about the ongoing East Asian
renaissance, whose plausibility remains to be assessed in the light of
unfolding evidence.
This collection is a valuable resource for students of Asian and world
history, international politics, comparative and historical sociology and
Asian studies.
Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland. His latest books are The Long Twentieth Century:
Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994) and Chaos and Governance
in the Modern World System(1999, with Beverly J. Silver).
Takeshi Hamashita is Professor of History at the Institute for Southeast
Asian Studies, Kyoto University and the Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo
University. He is co-author of the six-volume Japanese work, Maritime Asia
(2001) and numerous works on the political economy of East Asia.
Mark Selden is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University and Pro-
fessorial Associate, East Asia Program, Cornell University, New York. His
recent books include, Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (with
Elizabeth J. Perry) and Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese
and American Power(with Laura Hein).
Asia’s Transformations
Edited by Mark Selden, Binghamton University and
Cornell University, USA
The books in this series explore the political, social, economic and cultural con-
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The series emphasizes the tumultuous interplay of local, national, regional and
global forces as Asia bids to become the hub of the world economy. While focus-
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contested rise.
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The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 year perspectives
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Adrian Buzo
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Remaking the Chinese State
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Chinese Society
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China’s Past, China’s Future
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The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 year perspectives
Edited by Giovanni Arrighi,
Takeshi Hamashita and
Mark Selden
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The resurgence of East Asia : 500, 150 and 50 year perspectives /
edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, and Mark Selden.
p. cm. – (Asia’s transformations)
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. East Asia–Economic conditions. 2. East Asia–Commerce.
3. East Asia–Economic integration. I. Arrighi, Giovanni.
II. Hamashita, Takeshi, 1943– III. Selden, Mark. IV. Series.
HC460.5 .R475 2003
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2002153863
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Contents
List of figures ix
List of tables x
Notes on contributors xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: the rise of East Asia in regional and world
historicalperspective 1
GIOVANNI ARRIGHI, TAKESHI HAMASHITA AND MARK
SELDEN
1 Tribute and treaties: maritime Asia and treaty port networks
intheeraof negotiation, 1800–1900 17
TAKESHI HAMASHITA
2 A frontier view of Chineseness 51
PETER C. PERDUE
3 The East Asian path of economic development: a long-term
perspective 78
KAORU SUGIHARA
4 Women’s work, family, and economic development in
EuropeandEast Asia: long-term trajectories and
contemporarycomparisons 124
KENNETH POMERANZ
5 The importance of commerce in the organization of China’s
lateimperial economy 173
GARY G. HAMILTON AND WEI-AN CHANG
viii Contents
6 Japan, technology and Asian regionalism in comparative
perspective 214
PETER J. KATZENSTEIN
7 Historical capitalism, East and West 259
GIOVANNI ARRIGHI, PO-KEUNG HUI, HO-FUNG HUNG AND
MARK SELDEN
Index 334
Figures
I.1 Sino-centric world and inter-regional relations in Asia 6
1.1 Maritime zones of Asia 18
1.2 East and West maritime routes 22
1.3 Treaty ports and opened cities in East Asia in the 1880s 32
1.4 Trading points along the Sino-Korean border 33
3.1 The industrial revolution and the industrious revolution 83
3.2 The Ishikawa curve 85
3.3 The survival of traditional industry 91
3.4 The choice of industrial structure 97
3.5 Global Lorenz curve (thirty countries) in 1870 and 1950 103
3.6 Global Lorenz curve (199 countries) in 1950 and 1990 104
7.1 The snowballing effect in the rise of East Asia 302