Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page i Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian markets and those of the wider world. This collection presents captivating ‘snap-shots’ of trade in specific commodities, alongside chapters comprehensively covering the region. The book covers China’s relative backwardness, Japanese copper exports, Japan’s fur trade, Siam’s luxury rice trade, Korea, Japanese shipbuilding, the silk trade, the refined sugar trade, competition in the rice trade, the Japanese cotton textile trade to Africa, multilateral settlements in Asia, the cotton textile trade to Britain and the growth of the palm oil industry in Malaysia and Indonesia. The opening of Asia, especially Japan and China, liberated the creative forces of the market within the new interactive Asian economy. This fascinating book fills a particular gap in the literature on intra-Asian trade from the sixteenth century to the present day. It will be of particular interest to historians and economists focusing on Asia. A.J.H. Latham retired as Senior Lecturer in International Economic History at the University of Wales, Swansea, in 2003. His recent books include Rice: The Primary Commodity. He co-edited (with Kawakatsu) Asia Pacific Dynamism, 1550–2000 (both are published by Routledge). Heita Kawakatsu is Vice-Director of the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, and Professor of Economic History there. His publications in Japanese include Japanese Civilisation and the Modern West, and he recently edited A History of the Asia Pacific Economy, 1500–2000. Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page ii Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 1 The Police in Occupation Japan 9 Japanese Industrialisation Control, corruption and Historical and cultural resistance to reform perspectives Christopher Aldous Ian Inkster 2 Chinese Workers 10 War and Nationalism in A new history China, 1925–1945 Jackie Sheehan Hans J. van de Ven 3 The Aftermath of Partition in 11 Hong Kong in Transition South Asia One country, two systems Tai Yong Tan and Edited by Robert Ash, Gyanesh Kudaisya Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook and Robin Porter 4 The Australia–Japan Political Alignment 12 Japan’s Postwar 1952 to the present Economic Recovery and Alan Rix Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948–1962 5 Japan and Singapore in the World Noriko Yokoi Economy Japan’s economic advance into 13 Japanese Army Stragglers and Singapore, 1870–1965 Memories of the War in Japan, Shimizu Hiroshi and 1950–1975 Hirakawa Hitoshi Beatrice Trefalt 6 The Triads as Business 14 Ending the Vietnam War Yiu Kong Chu The Vietnamese communists’ perspective 7 Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Ang Cheng Guan Nationalism A-chin Hsiau 15 The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession 8 Religion and Nationalism in India Adopting and adapting western The case of the Punjab influences Harnik Deol Aya Takahashi Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page iii 16 Women’s Suffrage in Asia 26 Nationalism in Southeast Gender nationalism and democracy Asia Louise Edwards and Mina Roces If the people are with us Nicholas Tarling 17 The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1922 27 Women, Work and the Phillips Payson O’Brien Japanese Economic Miracle 18 The United States and Cambodia, The case of the cotton textile 1870–1969 industry, 1945–1975 From curiosity to confrontation Helen Macnaughtan Kenton Clymer 28 A Colonial Economy in Crisis 19 Capitalist Restructuring and the Burma’s rice delta and the Pacific Rim world depression of Ravi Arvind Palat the 1930s Ian Brown 20 The United States and Cambodia, 1969–2000 29 A Vietnamese Royal Exile A troubled relationship in Japan Kenton Clymer Prince Cuong De (1882–1951) Tran My-Van 21 British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957–70 30 Corruption and Good Governance ‘Neo-colonialism’ or in Asia ‘disengagement’? Nicholas Tarling Nicholas J. White 31 US–China Cold War 22 The Rise and Decline of Collaboration, 1971–1989 Thai Absolutism S. Mahmud Ali Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead 32 Rural Economic Development in Japan 23 Russian Views of Japan, 1792–1913 From the nineteenth century to the An anthology of travel writing pacific war David N. Wells Penelope Francks 24 The Internment of Western 33 Colonial Armies in Civilians under the Japanese, Southeast Asia 1941–1945 Edited by Karl Hack and A patchwork of internment Tobias Rettig Bernice Archer 34 Intra-Asian Trade and the World 25 The British Empire and Tibet, Market 1900–1922 Edited by A.J.H. Latham and Wendy Palace Heita Kawakatsu Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page iv Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page v Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market Edited by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu I~ ~~o~I!~n~~~up LONDON AND NEW YORK Latham-FM.qxd 21/12/05 6:23 PM Page vi First published 2006 by Routledge Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2006 A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, selection and editorial matter; the contributors, their own chapters Typeset in Times New Roman by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd, Chennai, India The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks. com, has been made available und er a Creati ve Commons Attribution -Non C o mmercial - No De riv atives 4.0 license. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 978-0-415-37207-7 (hbk) Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page vii Contents List of illustrations ix Notes on contributors xiii Foreword xviii Preface xx Introduction 1 1 China’s overseas trade policy and its historical results: 1522–1840 4 SHI ZHIHONG 2 The golden age of Japanese copper: the intra-Asian copper trade of the Dutch East India Company 24 RYUTO SHIMADA 3 Inter-Asian competition in the fur market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 37 CHIKASHI TAKAHASHI 4 The Japanese acquisition of maritime technology from the United Kingdom 46 MASAMI KITA 5 Inter-Asian competition in the world silk market: 1859–1929 75 SHINSUKE KANEKO 6 Inter-Asian competition in the sugar market, 1890–1939 92 TAKASHI KUME Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page viii viii Contents 7 Rival merchants: the Korean market in the late nineteenth century 103 SOOYOON LEE 8 Tan Kim Ching and Siam “Garden rice”: the rice trade between Siam and Singapore in the late nineteenth century 114 TOSHIYUKI MIYATA 9 The Rangoon Gazette and inter-Asian competition in the intra-Asian rice trade 1920–41 133 A.J.H. LATHAM 10 Japanese competition in the Congo Basin in the 1930s 155 KATSUHIKO KITAGAWA 11 Shifting patterns of multilateral settlements in the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s 168 MASAFUMI YOMODA 12 Inter-Asian competition for the British market in cotton textiles: the political economy of Anglo-Asian cartels, c.1932–60 186 DAVID CLAYTON 13 An edible oil for the world: Malaysian and Indonesian competition in the palm oil trade, 1945–2000 209 SUSAN MARTIN Index 231 Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page ix Illustrations Figures 2.1 Japan’s copper exports 1650–1800 26 2.2 Distribution of Japanese copper via Malacca 27 2.3 VOC trade of Japanese copper 28 2.4 Gross profits per Dutch lbs of Japanese copper 29 2.5 Copper value measured by rate of silver in east Rajasthan, 1709–50 30 2.6 Rice price at Osaka (copper currency) 1733–1800 32 6.1 Trends in the final consumption price of white sugar and gur 98 7.1 Gold exports from Korea 104 7.2 The Korean distribution system 108 8.1 A portrait of Tan Kim Ching 115 8.2 Business activities of Tan Kim Ching: 1891 123 8.3 The Tan Tock Seng family 124 8.4 Singapore major businessmen: Tan Boo Liat’s property and business in 1914 129 11.1 Patterns of settlements (trade balances only) 171 11.2 Patterns of settlements (inclusive of trade balances, investment returns, emigrants’ remittances and government transfer) 172 Tables 2A.1 Quantities of Japanese copper reshipped from Malacca and Batavia, 1700–85 34 3.1 The number of furs imported into China by the Americans 39 3.2 Importation of skin into Canton, by American ships, 1804–18 40 3.3 Prices at the eastern Ezochi, in the later eighteenth century and early nineteenth century 41 4.1 The Oyatoi of the Meiji government (1871–98) 48 4.2 Distribution of Oyatoi among governmental departments in the Meiji period (1868–1900) 49 Latham-FM.qxd 8/12/05 7:22 AM Page x x Illustrations 4.3 Distribution of Oyatoi to departments among Kobu-sho (1868–1900) 51 4.4 Number of Japanese youth going overseas (1867–74) 52 4.5 Introduction of iron and steel technology to Japan 54 4.6 Introduction of the technology of naval architecture to Japan 55 4.7 The names and careers of Oyatoi from Glasgow University to Kobu-da i gakko and others 56 4.8 The names and careers of Oyatoi from Edinburgh University to Kobu-da i gakko and others 57 4.9 The names and careers of Oyatoi from Imperial College of Technology & Science 57 4.10 The names and careers of Oyatoi from University College, London 58 4.11 Japanese students at Glasgow University (1880–1915) 60 4.12 The names of Japanese recipients of degrees from Glasgow University 61 4.13 Names of vessels purchased by A.R.