Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Imperial Ties and Free Trade -- Chapter 3. Protests and Power Turbines – Korea, 1980 -- Chapter 4. Whisky, Drugs and Bonds – Korea, 1987 – 1997 -- Chapter 5. Gratuitously Disagreeable – Taiwan, 1980 – 1990 -- Chapter 6. Planes, Trains and Visas –...

This chapter picks up the century-old communist idea that this system will one day evolve to dominate the capitalist system. Now that China is successfully catching up, it not only has gained considerable weight globally but it is also an emerging power in its own region of South East Asia....

pt. 1. Two models of expansion without borders : the European Mediterraneans -- pt. 2. Early outlines of an Asian Mediterranean : the predominance of tributary trade -- pt. 3. The overlapping of Western and Asian trading networks -- pt. 4. The arena of re-globalisation : the second birth of the...