Takeshi Hamashita is Professor in the Faculty of International Communications at Ryukoku University, Japan and Professor in the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Mark Selden is Research Fellow on the East Asia Program at Cornell University, USA and Coordinator of the Asia Pacific e-journal Japan Focus. Linda Grove is Professor of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan.

• 1. Editors’ Introduction: New Perspectives on China, East Asia and the Global Economy 2. The Tribute Trade System and Modern Asia 3. Despotism and Decentralisation in Chinese Governance: Taxation, Tribute and Emigration 4. Silver in Regional Economies and the World Economy: East Asia in the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries 5. The Ryukyu Maritime Network from the Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia 6. Maritime Asia and Treaty Port Networks in the Era of Negotiation. Tribute and Treaties, 1800-1900 7. Foreign Trade Finance in China: Silver, Opium, and World Market Incorporation, 1820s to 1850s 8. China and Hong Kong in the British Empire in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 9. Overseas Chinese Financial Networks: Korea, China and Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century

"This volume is more than worthwhile reading...Readers will be challenged, but not disappointed." - Robert B. Marks, Whittier College, Georgia'China East Asia and the Global Economy is an excellent volume in the spirit of the series' claim to presenting "Critical Asian Scholarship". Hamashita demonstrates how regional history occupies a crucial role in the discussion and definition of global history by questioning whose global perspective is under discussion. Thanks to careful editorial work by Linda Grove and Mark Selden, readers are able to appreciate Hamashita's remarkable scholarly contribution to Chinese and East Asian History as well as to the transformation of economic institutions and processes within regional and global history.' - Elisabeth Koell, Harvard Business School, The China Journal, No. 63