This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal … characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s …. Since then, Japanese historians of the socioeconomic history of Asia have explored how the traditional trade relations that …

: orchestration. Drawing upon extensive field research across Asia and Europe, Orchestration traces the origins, operations, and …'s approach to economic statecraft, and assesses Beijing's orchestration in four cases: Myanmar, North Korea, Western Europe, and … Central/Eastern Europe. China's unique experience as a planned economy, and then a developmental state, all under a single …