Description
Book SynopsisThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry- and transportation-related technology, and business methods. While most scholarship on nineteenth-century technology transfer beyond Europe and North America has focused on the West-to-East movement of artifacts, skills, and knowledge, Strands of Modernization considers the transfer of technology and business methods within East Asia in the period between approximately 1850 and 1920.
Highlighting currents moving in multiple directions, 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 sociocultural boundari
Table of Contents
Introduction: Capacious Connections with and within East Asia David G. Wittner and David B. Sicilia 1. Multinationals and Western Technology Transfer to East Asia, 1870-1914 David B. Sicilia 2. Print Capitalism and Material Culture: Technology Transfer in Early Twentieth-Century China Tze-Ki Hon 3. The Essence of Being Modern: Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Meiji Japan David G. Wittner 4. The Evolution of the Exposition Form and its Transfer from the West to Japan Jeffer Daykin 5. What the Eastern Wind Brings: Rickshaw, Mobility and Modernity in Asia M. William Steele 6. Zhang Jian and the Transfer of Western Business Methods through Japan into China Yu Chen 7. Shibusawa Eiichi and the Transfer of Western Banking to Japan Kimura Masato 8. Korea’s Hansung Bank and the Daiichi Bank: The Path from the West through Japan Kim Myungsoo Bibliography Contributors
