Reinventing Eden
Reinventing Eden

Author: Carolyn Merchant

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1136161244

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This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.

The Hong Merchants of Canton
The Hong Merchants of Canton

Author: Weng Eang Cheong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1136785817

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This study eschews the uncritical acceptance of secondary sources that has characterized studies in this field, going back to and reinterpreting previously neglected primary sources, thereby enabling it to chart linkages between the European and Asian trades that have been regarded as parallel but unrelated (or at best competing) activities. In so doing, the work sheds new light on this crucial period.

Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development
Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development

Author: G. C. Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1136502645

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Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development charts the activities of Western firms in China and Japan from the middle of the nineteenth century, when those countries were opened to foreign trade, until recently. The organization of the Western business undertakings, the types of firms concerned and relations between the Westerners and the Japanese and Chinese economies are all discussed. Among the economic activities covered are: merchant banking, finance, manufacturing, mining, shipping and domestic transport. A dominant theme is the contrast presented by China and Japan in their response to Western enterprise.

The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan
The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan

Author: Kevin C. Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1134433964

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American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first book-length treatment of this group, Kevin Murphy explores their interactions with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them to its own ends, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan through their ambiguous but deep concern with order and opportunity, restraint and dominance, and conservatism and dominance.

Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports
Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports

Author: Yuki Allyson Honjo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1134279817

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This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports in 1859. Fundamental to the equation were the inevitable east-west cultural and legal ambiguities that impacted on the traders. The learning curve for both westerners and Japanese regarding the nature and application of western contracting law was predictably difficult, tortuous and open to constant misunderstanding. Nevertheless, it was within such a framework that the principal benchmarks for trade with Japan were set down and which, in essence, have lasted to the present day.

Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600–1980
Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600–1980

Author: Madeleine Zelin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1317317882

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This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the different economic, political and cultural conditions that gave rise to a variety of merchant communities in Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore and India.