maritime network from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries : China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia -- 6. Maritime Asia and … nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- 9. Overseas Chinese financial networks : Korea, China, and Japan in the late …1. Editors' introduction : new perspectives on China, East Asia, and the global economy -- 2. The tribute trade system …

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For … late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by … which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate …