China, East Asia and the Global Economy: Regional and Historical Perspectives

Chapters 2-9 can be separated into two basic categories: the Chinese-centered world in Asia from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (chapters 2-5) and the rise of global financial capital and commercial networks in Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (chapters 7-9). [...] he effectively and convincingly shows that many of the changes happening in China were global in origin and not simply the result of imperialist interventions.