Shigeru Akita and Naoto Kagotani
The purpose of this chapter is to reconsider the nature and the formation of the 'International Order of Asia' in the 1930s in the light of new historiographical revisions in Great Britain as well as in Japan.
Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian economic history.1 They argue that the economic growth of Asian countries was led by the phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. On the other side, the British imperial historians, PJ. Cain and A.G. Hopkins have presented their own provocative interpretation, 'Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas', in which they emphasize the leading role of the service sector rather than that of British industry in assessing the nature of British expansion over- seas.2 We will attempt here to integrate these new perspectives3 and to present a fresh interpretation of the international order of Asia in the 1930s. In this chapter, 'Asia' is taken to mean East Asia and Southeast and South Asia. The former includes Japan, the most industrialized country in Asia, the rising sovereign state of China and the then Japanese colony of Taiwan (Formosa). The latter consists mainly of the colonies of the European Powers, including British India and the Dutch East Indies.This chapter is divided into three sections. At first, we will present broader frameworks and viewpoints of analysis on the international order of Asia in the 1930s, based upon our collaborative work with Japanese and Taiwanese scholars.4 Secondly, we try to analyze the British perceptions of Japanese economic development in the early 1930s. And thirdly, we will consider Japanese cotton-textile diplomacy in the first half of the 1930s.
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