Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199) and index.
Contents:
Editors' introduction: new perspectives on China, East Asia, and the global economy -- The tribute trade system and modern Asia -- Despotism and decentralization in Chinese governance: taxation, tribute, and emigration -- Silver in regional economies and the world economy: east Asia in the sixteenth to nineteenth centurys -- The Ryukyu maritime network form the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries: China, Korea, Japan, and southeast Asia -- Maritime Asian treaty port networks in the era of negotiation: tribute and treaties, 1800-1900 -- Foreign trade finance in China: silver, opium, and world market incorporation, 1820s to 1850s China and Hong Kong in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Overseas Chinese financial networks : Korea, China, and Japan in the late nineteenth century.
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