Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (Email:
[email protected]; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) and George C.S. Lin Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong (Email:
[email protected]) A Paper Presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 29 May – 1 June 2002. Acknowledgement Henry Yeung would like to thank Philip Kelly and Glen Norcliffe for their kind invitation to attend this conference. This paper originates from a special session in the 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 19 - 23 March 2002, and will be published as an introduction to a special issue on “Economic Geographies of Asia” in Economic Geography, Vol.79(3), 2003. We would like to thank Fulong Wu for co-organizing the session and all paper presenters for their participation and subsequent submission. We have received very useful comments from XXX. None of these institutions and individuals, however, should be responsible for any shortcomings of this paper. 14 May 2002 Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia Abstract: The economic geographies of Asia are highly fascinating, not least because Asia has increasingly emerged as a significant economic player in all three spheres of global competition: production, consumption, and circulation. This dynamic mosaic of economic landscapes in Asia is further complicated during and after the recent 1997/1998 economic crisis. While some aspects of these economic geographies of Asia have already received research attention, many complex economic-geographical processes in Asia have been under- theorized in the literature.