Furuta, Kazuko
Imitation, Counterfeiting and the Quality of Goods in Modern Asian History
Part I. Governing the Quality of Goods: Information, Trust-Building and the Self-enforcement Mechanisms of the Market
1. Asymmetry of Information, Trust-Building and Market Quality: Governing the Quality of Goods in Modern Asia
Kazuko Furuta, Toshiaki Ushijima
2. Market Approaches to Dealing with Cotton Adulteration in Early Twentieth-Century China
Masataka Setobayashi
3. The Fraudulent Fertilizer Problem in the Late Meiji Era: Credibility Acquisition by New Market Entrants and the Agricultural Experiment Stations
Chikashi Takahashi
4. Two Paths Toward Raising Quality: Fertilizer Use in Rice and Sugarcane Cultivation in Colonial Taiwan (1895–1945)
Kensuke Hirai
5. Quality as a Moving Target: Japanese Tea, Consumer Preference, and Federal Regulation on the US Market
Robert Hellyer
6. Merchant Association Networks and Product Quality Control: A Case Study of the Silk Pongee Industry in Shandong
Wei Zhang
7. Imitation and Innovation in the Early Twentieth-Century North China Weaving Industry
Linda Grove
Part II. Small Things and Copy Culture in Global Economic History: From the Perspectives of East Asia
8. Imitation, Counterfeiting, and the Market in Early Twentieth Century Japan and China: Intra-Asian Trade in Modern Small Sundry Goods
Kazuko Furuta
9. Technology Transfer, Imitation and Local Production: The Soap Industry in Early Twentieth-Century Tianjin
Linda Grove
10. Assimilation and Industrialization: The Demand for Soap in Colonial Taiwan
Kensuke Hirai
11. Playing with “Alien Fire” (
Kai Yiu Chan
12. From Emulation to Innovation: Japanese Toy Exports to High-Income Countries Before World War II
Masayuki Tanimoto
13. Bottom-Up Industrialization in the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of Industries Producing Small Things in Zhejiang
Asei Ito
Keywords: Economics, Economic History, Small Business, Asian Economics
- Editor
- Furuta, Kazuko
- Grove, Linda
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Studies in Economic History
- Page amount
- 23 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789811037528
- Printed ISBN
- 978-981-10-3751-1