This paper studies the relationship between Asia’s economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations …’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are … to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …

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 …