The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s

Contents: Introduction: the international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s: contexts, hypotheses and scope, Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White Part 1 The International Order of Asia, the British Empire and the Sterling Area: British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s, Shigeru Akita British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s, Yoichi Kibata The formation of an industrialization-oriented monetary order in East Asia, Kaoru Sugihara The Korean-centric Japanese imperium and the transformation of the international system from the 1930s to the 1950s, Bruce Cumings Sterling, Hong Kong and China in the 1930s and 1950s, Catherine R. Schenk Malaya and the sterling area reconsidered: continuity and change in the 1950s, Nicholas J. White. Part 2 The International Order of Asia and Asian Regional Economies: Japan's commercial penetration of South and Southeast Asia and the cotton trade negotiations in the 1930s: maintaining relations between Japan, British India and the Dutch East Indies, Naoto Kagotani China's relations with the international monetary system in the 20th century: historical analysis and contemporary implication, Tomoko Shiroyama China's economic development and the international order of Asia, 1930-50s, Toru Kubo Continuity and discontinuity from the 1930s to the 1950s in Northeast China: the 'miraculous' rehabilitation of the Anshan Iron & Steel Company immediately after the Chinese civil war, Toshiro Matsumoto The survival of economic elites during regime transition: government-merchant cooperation in Taiwan's trade with Japan, 1950-1961, Man-houng Lin Index.