Globalism,
Regionalism & Localism
Fall 2003
Room#202
cheooh@yahoo.co.kr
Wednesday 10:00-13:00
Che Chang Ooh
(02)2123-3962
The purpose of this course is to mainly evaluate economic and social change in China, Japan
and Korea in the age of imperialism that has strongly modified the politico-economic
development pattern of respective nation thereafter. In explaining the emergence of modern
China, Japan and Korea, we shall examine how these three states and societies interacted in search
for modernisation and to what extent historical patterns can be identified in their present-day
development.
Most of the course will depend on students’ presentation and participation in open discussion.
Students are required to select which topic they are to make an oral presentation and lead
discussion. The oral presentation is to be limited to 45 minutes and contain a summary and a
critical assessment of readings. Students are required to submit a term research paper of about
5-10 pages on any topic in the course (no later than December 31) and make a brief presentation
in the final week.
Grading:
1. Attendance (40% of the final grade)
2. Presentation of each seminar topic and participation in discussion (30% of the final grade)
3. Term paper submission and presentation (30% of the final grade)
Week 1. Introduction
Week 2. The traditional economic and social institutions of China, Japan and Korea in the mid
19th century – the state apparatus, its revenue and its bureaucracy – the functioning of the
economy and the social status quo.
J K Fairbank, A Eckstein & L S Yang, ‘Economic Change in Early Modern China’ Economic
Development and Cultural Change 9, 1, pt.1, Oct 1960
L E Eastman, Family, Fields and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China’s Social and
Economic History, 1550-1949, (Oxford 1988), chapter 6 & 7
T Hamashita, ‘Foreign Trade Finance in China, 1810-50’, in L Grove and C Daniels (eds) State
and Society in China, (Uinversity of Tokyo Press, 1984)
Key-Hiuk Kim, The Last Phase of the East Asian World Order, (Berkeley 1980)
J B Palais, Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea (Cambridge Mass.1975)
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E O Reischauer and A M Craig, Japan: Tradition & Transformation, Tuttle Co., 1978, chapter 3
C D Sheldon, ‘Merchants and Society in Tokugawa Japan’ Modern Asian Studies 17, 3, July
1983
---‘Pre-Modern Merchants and Modernization in Japan’, Modern Asian Studies 5, 3, 1971
T C Smith, ‘Pre-Modern Economic Growth: Japan and the West’, Past and Present, no. 60
K Yamamura, ‘Towards a Re-examination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan’
Journal of Economic History 23, 3, Sept. 1973
Week 3. The arrival of the west – the development of the treaty port system in China and
Japan– the growth of Western Trade – the Opening of Korea – Chinese and Japanese
responses to the impact of the West – foreign participation in the development of China, Japan
and Korea.
G C Allen & A G Donnithorne, Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development
(London 1957)
K-J Cho, ‘The Impact of the Opening of Korea on Its Commerce and Industry’, Korea Journal,
February 1976
W I Cohen, ‘The Foreign Impact on East Asia’, in M Goldman and A Gordon (eds) Historical
Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, (Harvard 2000)
R F Dernberger, ‘The Role of the Foreigner in China’s Economic Development 1840-1949’ in D
H Perkins (ed) China’s Modern Economy in Historical Perspective (Stanford 1975)
M Deuchler, Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea 1875-1885
(Seattle 1977) ch. 5 & 10
L E Eastman, Family, Fields and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China’s Social and
Economic History, 1550-1949, (Oxford 1988), chapter 8
Yen-p’ing Hao, The Comprador in 19th Century China: Bridge Between East and West
(Cambridge Mass. 1970)
Key-Hiuk Kim, Opening of Korea: A Confucian Response to the Western Impact (Yonsei
1999), pp. 1-23.
S-J Koh, ‘The Development of the Modern Banking System in Korea’, Koreana Quarterly,
1976
Y-I Lew, Japanese Challenge and Korean Response, 1870-1910: A Brief Historical Survey’,
Korea Journal, December 1985
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W W Lockwood, ‘Japan’s Response to the West: the Contrast with China’ World Politics 9,
1956
T Michell, ‘Economic Ideas and Economic Reality in the Opening of Korea to Foreign Trade’,
Korea Observer, 1983
R Murphy, ‘The Treaty Ports and China’s Modernization’ in M Elvin & G W Skinner (eds) The
Chinese City Between Two Worlds (Stanford 1974)
S Sugiyama, Japan’s Trade with Korea, 1876-1895 as reflected in British Sources, LSE Working
Paper, 1988
Week 4. Socio-economic change in the rural community – changing social structure –
distribution of agricultural income and rates of growth – contribution of agriculture to
industrialisation.
R P Dore, ‘Agricultural Improvement in Japan 1870-1900’ Economic Development & Cultural
Change 9, 1, pt 2 Oct 1960
L E Eastman, Family, Fields and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China’s Social and
Economic History, 1550-1949, (Oxford 1988), chapter 4 & 5
T-J Liu & J C H Fei, ‘An Analysis of the Land Tax Burden in China 1650-1865’ Journal of
Economic History 37, 2 June 1977
R H Myers, ‘The Commercialization of Agriculture in Modern China’ in W E Willmott (ed)
Economic Organization in Chinese Society (Stanford 1972)
J I Nakamura, ‘Growth of Japanese Agriculture 1875-1920’ in W W Lockwood (ed) The State
of Economic Enterprise in Japan (Princeton 1965)
H Rosovsky, ‘Rumbles in the Ricefields’ Journal of Asian Studies, 27, 2, Feb 1968
M A Schneider, ‘ The Limits of Cultural Rule: Internationalism and Identity in Japanese
Responses to Korean Rice’, in G-W Shin and M Robinson (eds) Colonial Modernity in Korea,
(Harvard University Asia Center, 1999)
G-W Shin and D-H Han, ‘Colonial Corporatism: The Rural Revitalization Campaign, 1932-40’,
in G-W Shin and M Robinson (eds) Colonial Modernity in Korea, (Harvard University Asia
Center, 1999)
A Waswo, Japanese Landlords: Decline of Rural Elite (Berkeley 1977)
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Week 5. Growth and change in the handicraft and commercial sectors – the response of the
traditional industries – the development of dualism in industry and commerce – the evolution of
the merchant class in China and the fate of the merchant class in post-1868 Japan.
M Elvin, ‘The High Level Equilibrium Trap: The Causes of the Decline of Intervention in the
Traditional Chinese Textile Industries’ in W E Willmott (ed) Economic Organisation in Chinese
Society (Stanford 1972)
Albert Feuerwerker, ‘Economic trends in the late Ch’ing empire, 1870-1911’, The Cambridge
History of China, vol.10, 1980
Yen-p’ing Hao, ‘Commercial Capitalism Along the China Coast during the Late Ch’ing Period’
in C-M Hou & T-S Yu (eds) Modern Chinese Economic History (Taipei 1979)
J Hirschmeier & T Yui, The Development of Japanese Business 1600-1973 (London 1975)
C D Sheldon, ‘Premodern Merchants & the Modernization of Japan’ Modern Asian Studies 5, 3,
July 1971
E-tu Zen Sun, ‘Sericulture & Silk Textile Production in Ch’ing China’ in W E Willmott (ed)
Economic Organisation in Chinese Society (Stanford 1972)
Week 6. Attempts to develop modern industry – the growth of large-scale enterprise in light and
heavy industry – the emergence of a factory labour force – the procuring of capital & raw
materials – the acquisition of technology and entrepreneurship.
*Marie-Claire Bergère, ‘The Chinese bourgeoisie, 1911-1937’, in The Cambridge History of
China, vol.11, 1980, pp.721-858
M Kimura, ‘Financial Aspects of Korea’s Economic Growth under Japanese Rule’, Modern
Asian Studies 20, 4, 1986
H Morikawa, ‘The Organisational Structure of Mitsubishi and Mitsui Zaibatsu 1868-1922’
Business History Review 44, 1, 1970
A C Nahm (ed), Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule (Michigan 1970), ch. 5 & 6
S-W Park, ‘Colonial Industrial Growth and the Emergence of the Korean Working Class’, in G-W
Shin and M Robinson (eds) Colonial Modernity in Korea, (Harvard University Asia Center,
1999)
Thomas G. Rawski, Economic Growth in Prewar China, University of California Press, 1989,
chapter 1, 3, 6 & 7
K-S Kim & M Roemer, ‘ An Overview of Korean Industrial Development During Japanese
Colonial Rule 1910-1945’ Growth & Structural Transformation (Cambridge, Mass. 1979)
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K Shibagaki, ‘The Early History of the Zaibatsu’ Developing Economies 4, 4, Dec 1966
K Yamamura, ‘Entrepreneurship, Ownership & Management in Japan’ in P Mathias & M M
Postan (eds) Cambridge History of Europe vol. 7 (Cambridge 1978)
Week 7. The role of the state in change and its relationship with the private sector –
administrative machinery, financial and monetary institutions, infrastructure, education,
industrial promotion – the state as a help or hindrance to change.
G C Allen, Japan’s Economic Policy (London 1980), ch.6
Wellington K.K. Chan, ‘Government, merchants and industry to 1911’, in The Cambridge History
of China, vol.11, 1980, pp.416-462
R Y Eng, ‘Chinese Entrepreneurs, the Government & the Foreign Sector: The Canton &
Shanghai Silk Reeling Enterprises 1861-1932’ Modern Asian Studies 18, 3, July 1984
M B Jansen (ed), The Cambridge History of Japan, vol.5. The Nineteenth Century (Cambridge
1988), pp. 432-498, 618-650
L P Jones & Il Sakong (eds), Government, Business & Entrepreneurship in Economic
Development: The Korean Case (Cambridge, Mass. 1980), ch. 2
K Nakagawa, ‘Government & Business in Japan: A Comparative Approach’ in K Nakagawa
(ed) Government and Business: Proceedings of the 5th Fuji conference (Tokyo 1980)
D H Perkins, ‘Government as an Obstacle to Industrialization: The Case of 19th Century China’
Journal of Economic History 27, 1967
F B Tipton, ‘Government Policy & Economic Development in Germany & Japan: A Sceptical
Revolution’ Journal of Economic History 41, 1, March 1981
Week 8. Mid-term Examination Week (No Exam)
Week 9. The process of urbanization and development of cities in China, Japan and Korea –
social problems in the cities and contrasts with the rural sector.
I B Taeuber, ‘Migrants and Cities in Japan, Taiwan & Northeast China’ M Elvin & G W Skinner
(eds) The Chinese City Between Two Worlds (Stanford 1974)
---‘Urbanisation & Population Change in the Development of Modern Japan’ Economic
Development & Cultural Change 1, part 2, Oct 1960
E S Mills & B-N Song, Urbanisation & Urban Problems in Korea (Cambridge Mass. 1979),
chs. 2 & 5
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G W Skinner ‘Regional Urbanisation in 19th Century China’ G W Skinner (ed) The City in Late
Imperial China (Stanford 1976)
H D Smith, ‘Tokyo as an Idea: An Exploration of Japanese Urban Thought until 1945’ Journal
of Japanese Studies 4,1, 1978
Week 10. Labour, industrial relations in modern industry.
T Chen, ‘The Labor Situation in Korea’, Monthly Labor Review, 1930
J Chesneaux, ‘The Chinese Labour Force in the First Part of the 20th Century’ in C D Cowan
(ed) Economic Development of China and Japan (London 1964)
S Garon, The State and Labour in Modern Japan (Berkeley 1987)
A Gordon, The Evolution of Labour Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry 1853-1955 (Cambridge,
Mass. 1986)
Emily Honig, Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949, (Stanford
1986), pp.41-131
Elizabeth J. Perry, Shanghai on Strike: the Politics of Chinese Labor, (Stanford 1986), pp.131-258
K Taira, ‘The Labour Market & Japanese Development’ British Journal of Industrial Relations 2,
2, July 1964
Week 11. Population movements – emigration from East Asia – East Asian migrant labour –
the overseas Chinese & Japanese communities – the pressures imposed by population growth.
F H Conroy & T S Miyakawa (eds), East Across the Pacific (Santa Barbara 1972)
M R Godley, Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernisation of China 1893-1911
(Cambridge, Mass. 1981)
S B Hanley & K Yamamura, Economic & Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan 16001868, (Princeton 1977)
Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China 1368-1953, (Cambridge, Mass. 1959)
D-Y Kim and J E Sloboda, ‘Migration and Korean Development’, in A C Nahm (ed), Korea
under Japanese Colonial Rule (Michigan 1970), ch. 3
F H Kwon et al (eds), The Population of Korea, (Seoul 1976)
M Weiner, The Origin of Korean Community in Japan, (Cardiff 1986)
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Ching-hwang Yen, ‘The Overseas Chinese and Late Ch’ing Economic Modernisation’ Modern
Asian Studies 16, 2, April 1982
Week 12. Relations between China, Japan and Korea – Sino-Japanese rivalry in Korea and
Manchuria – Japanese colonial policy in Korea – the question of imperialism in East Asia.
K Chao, ‘The Source of Economic Growth in Manchuria 1920-1941’, C-M Hou & T-S Yu (eds)
Modern Chinese Economic History (Taipei 1979)
H Conroy, The Japanese Seizure of Korea (Philadelphia 1964)
Bruce Cumings, ‘The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea’, R H Myers and M R Peattie,
(eds) The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton 1984), pp. 478-496.
A Iriye (ed), The Chinese and the Japanese (Princeton 1980) especially S C Chu ‘China’s
Attitudes Towards Japan at the Time of the Sino-Japanese War’; N Kamachi ‘The Chinese in
Meiji Japan’ and Bonnie B Oh ‘Sino-Japanese Rivalry in Korea 1876-1885’
Han-kyo Kim, ‘The Japanese Colonial Administration on Korea: An Overview’, Andrew C.
Nahm (ed) Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule (Kalamazoo 1973), pp. 41-53.
K M Wells, ‘The Rationale of Korean Economic Nationalism Under Japanese Colonial Rule
1922-1932: The Case of Cho Man-Sik’s Product Promotion Society’ Modern Asian Studies 19,
4, October 1985
H Wray & H F Conway (eds), Japan Examined (Honolulu 1983), chs. 5 & 8
Week 13. Patterns of economic and social change in the nations of East Asia – reasons for
‘success’ of ‘failure’ – the significance of political will and national unity – the existence of a
capitalist ethic – historiographical conclusions and analytical frameworks – modernization,
Westernisation of just industrialisation?
G C Allen, ‘Factors in Japan’s Economic Growth’ in C D Cowan (ed) Economic Development
of China and Japan (London 1964)
C Eckert, Colonial Modernity, (Harvard 1999), Epilogue
M Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past, (Stanford1973), chs. 16, 17 & conclusion
---‘Why China failed to create an endogenous industrial capitalism?’, in Theory & Society, 13
(1984), pp. 379-91
E Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of
Europe and Asia, (Cambridge 1987), chs. 6, 7, 11 & 12
V D Lippit, ‘Economic Development in Meiji Japan & Contemporary China: A Comparative
Study’ Cambridge Journal of Economics 2, 1978
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E S Mason et al (eds), The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea
(Cambridge, Mass. 1980), ch. 3
M Morishima, Why has Japan ‘Succeeded’? (Cambridge 1982)
F V Moulder, Japan, China and the Modern World Economy (Cambridge 1977)
K Pomeranz, The Greater Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World
Economy, (Princeton 2000), Introduction
H Wray & H F Conway (eds), Japan Examined (Honolulu 1983), chs. 1,2 & 12
Y Yasuba, ‘Anatomy of the Debate on Japanese Capitalism’ Journal of Japanese Studies 2, 1,
Autumn 1975
Week 14. Economic development pattern of Japan and Korea during the 1950s-1970s – U.S.
policy towards Japan and Korea – how East Asian economic miracle was achieved.
B Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History, (W.W. Norton & Co., 1997)
P Duus (ed), The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol.6. The Twentieth Century (Cambridge
1988), pp. 154-216, 502-540
D Friedman, The Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Development and Political Change in
Japan, (Cornell 1988)
S Haggard, D Kang and C I Moon, ‘Japanese Colonialism and Korean Development: A
Critique’, World Development, vol.25, no.6, 1997
C Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1926-1975,
(Stanford 1982), pp. 1-30, 305-324
A Kohli, ‘Where Do High-Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineage of
Korea’s Developmental State’, M Woo-Cumings (ed) The Developmental State, (Ithaca &
London 1999)
Sallie Yea, ‘Regionalism and Political-economic Differentiation in Korean Development:
Power Maintenance and the State as Hegemonic Power Bloc’, Korea Journal 1994, Summer
S Y Kim, ‘American Elites’ Strategic Thinking Towards Korea: From Kennan to Brzezinski’,
Diplomacy & Statecraft
김낙년, 〈1960년대 한국의 공업화와 그 특징〉, 《1960년대 한국의 공업화와 경제구조 한국현대사의 재인식8》, 한국정신문화연구원, 1999
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김일영,〈박정희체제 18년, 어떻게 볼 것인가〉, 《계간 사상》겨울호, 1995
Week 15. Rise of China in the world economy - East Asian economic crisis
R Ash and Y Y Kueh, The Chinese Economy under Deng Xiaoping, (Clarendon 1996)
K Courtis, ‘Japan Can Be the No. 1 Problem or the Solution’, International Herald Tribune
(99/6/23), p. 12.
T Friedman, ‘Sorry, Game Over’, The New York Times (98/4/8), p. 10.
G Hamilton, ‘Asian Business Networks in Transition: or, What Alan Greenspan Does Not
Know about the Asian Business Crisis’, in T J Pempel (ed) The Politics of The Asian Economic
Crisis (Ithaca and London 1999)
C Johnson, ‘Economic Crisis in East Asia: The Clash of Capitalisms’, Cambridge Journal of
Economics, vol.22, no.6, November 1998
N R Lardy, China in the World Economy, (Institute for International Economics 1994)
L Liew, The Chinese Economy in Transition, (Edward Edgar 1997)
C I Moon and J R Mo, Economic Crisis and Structural Reforms in South Korea: Assessments
and Implications (The Economic Strategy Institute 2000)
M Richardson, ‘Japan’s Lack of Leadership Pushes ASEAN Toward Cooperation With China’,
International Herald Tribune (98/4/17), p. 6.
J E Stiglitz, ‘From Miracle to Crisis to Recovery: Lessons from Four Decades of East Asian
Experiences’, in Joseph J E Stiglitz and S Yusuf, Rethinking The East Asian Miracle (Oxford
2001)
D H Whittaker and Y Kurosawa, ‘Japan’s Crisis: Evolution and Implications’, Cambridge
Journal of Economics, vol.22, no.6, November 1998
Week 16. Term Paper Presentation
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