Stages of Industrial Development in Asia

A Comparative History of the Cotton Industry in Japan, India, China, and Korea

Sung Jae Koh

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781512803471, 9781512803471
• eBook ISBN: 9781512803488
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Economics

This volume is a major contribution to fuller understanding of the modern economic and industrial history of Asian nations and to the general understanding of the socioeconomic conditions in underdeveloped countries, stressing the history of the modernization of the cotton industry, not merely because of its basic importance but also because such limitation gives definiteness to the subject. The author analyzes all the factors that have changed the tempo, altered the direction, and limited the extent of the industrial development in these countries, with special references to the economic implication of actions by social organizations and political institutions.The volume contains a wealth of detailed statistical matter in which the reader will find systematically the main factual contexts of the industrial development of each country. Sung Jae Koh's service to English readers is therefore an important one in a field where there is an acknowledged growing need for such information.Sung Jae Koh held professorships at Yonsei University and Seoul National University. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Contents
• I. The Rise and Development of the Modern Cotton Industry in Japan
• II. Labor Supply and Labor Policy in the Japanese Cotton Industry
• III. The Socio-economic Background of the Development of the Modern Cotton Industry in India
• IV. A History of the Cotton Trade Between India and Japan
• V. The Beginning and Growth of the Modern Cotton Industry in China
• VI. A History of the Cotton Trade Between the United States and the Far East
• VII. The Place of Korea in the History of the Early Cotton Industry in the Far East
• VIII. A History of the Cotton Trade Between Korea and Japan
• Appendix
• Index