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Strands of Modernization : The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920
Title
Strands of Modernization : The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920 / ed. by David B. Sicilia, David G. Wittner.
ISBN
9781487539672
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (208 p.) : 30 b&w figures, 4 b&w tables
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739220
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Summary
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry, transportation-related technology and business methods. While most scholarship on nineteenth century technology transfer beyond Europe and North America has focussed on the West-to-East movement of artifacts, skills, and knowledge, Strands of Modernization considers the diffusion of industry and transportation-related technologies as well as business methods in East Asia, in the period between approximately 1850 and 1920. Highlighting currents moving in multiple directions, David B. Sicilia, David G. Wittner, and contributors, expand upon conventional notions of what qualifies as a "technology" or a "business practice," looking more broadly at skills, systems of technology, tacit knowledge, and the ideologies and other belief systems with which they interact. The core ambition driving Strands of Modernization is to illuminate processes of adaption, versus adoption, that occur when technology and business practices cross socio-cultural boundaries.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
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print
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2023
Series
Japan and Global Society : 24
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Capacious Connections with and within East Asia
1 Multinationals and Technology Transfer to and within East Asia, 1870-1914
2 Print Capitalism and Material Culture: Technology Transfer in Early Twentieth-Century China
3 The Essence of Being Modern: Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Meiji Japan
4 The Evolution of the Exposition Form and Its Transfer from the West to Japan
5 What the Eastern Wind Brings: Rickshaws, Mobility, and Modernity in Asia
6 Zhang Jian and the Transfer of Western Business Practices through Japan into China
7 Shibusawa Eiichi and the Transfer of Western Banking to Japan
8 The Transfer of Western Banking Systems to Korea's Hanseong Bank: The Path through Japan
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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