Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Globalization, factor prices and living standards in Asia before 1940 -- Four revolutions in the textile trade of Asia 1814 1994: the impact of Bombay, Osaka, the Little Tigers and China -- Europe, China and Japan: transfer of silk reeling technology in 1860 95 -- The colonial origins of Korea's market economy -- South Korea's late industrialization in comparative historical perspective -- Export dynamics in Taiwan and Mainland China 1950 2000: a Schumpeterian approach -- Industrialization and institutional change in Hong Kong 1842 1960 -- Education and development: the experience of the Four Little Tigers -- Another monetary economy: the case of traditional China -- Money and growth without development: the case of Ming China -- California and Nevada minerals in the Pacific Rim 1850 1900 -- The transmission of corporate cultures: international Officers in the HSBC Group -- Chaos and instability: the Asia Pacific rice trade in the 1990s.