Strands of modernization : the circulation of technology and business practices in East Asia, 1850-1920 / edited by David B. Sicilia and David G. Wittner.
| Other author/creator | Sicilia, David B., editor. |
| Other author/creator | Wittner, David G., editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021] |
| Description | x, 191 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. |
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| Series | Japan and global society Japan and global society. ^A1093265 |
| Contents | Introduction: Capacious Connections with and within East Asia / David G. Wittner and David B. Sicilia -- Multinationals and Western Technology Transfer to East Asia, 1870-1914 / David B. Sicilia -- Print Capitalism and Material Culture: Technology Transfer in Early Twentieth-Century China / Tze-Ki Hon -- The Essence of Being Modern: Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Meiji Japan / David G. Wittner -- The Evolution of the Exposition Form and its Transfer from the West to Japan / Jeffer Daykin -- What the Eastern Wind Brings: Rickshaw, Mobility and Modernity in Asia / M. William Steele -- Zhang Jian and the Transfer of Western Business Methods through Japan into China / Yu Chen -- Shibusawa Eiichi and the Transfer of Western Banking to Japan / Kimura Masato -- Korea's Hansung Bank and the Daiichi Bank: The Path from the West through Japan / Kim Myungsoo. |
| Abstract | "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 focused 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Strands of modernization. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487539681 9781487539689 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781487509088 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1487509081 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | T174.3 .S77 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |