This was followed by a workshop in Hong Kong in June 1998. This workshop was entitled "The Rise of East Asia: 500, 150, and 50 Year Perspectives."
The workshop proposed an analysis of the emerging East Asian regional political economy along three distinct temporal dimensions, embedded within one another in Russian-doll fashion. The shortest dimension was defined by the reorganization of East Asia in the era of U.S.-Soviet hegemonic rivalry and the resurgence of Asia as a power center in the world-economy; the intermediate perspective was defined by the response of East Asian countries to the devastating nineteenth-century challenge of Western power including colonialism and the rise of Japan; and the long perspective was defined by the legacy of the East Asia tribute-trade system in the intergovernmental and interenterprise relations from the sixteenth century.
The following papers were prepared:
Giovanni Arrighi and P.K. Hui, "Historical Capitalism, East and West"
Stephen Chiu, "Constructing Capitalist Developmental States in East Asia: A World-Polity Perspective"
Bruce Cumings, "East Asia in the World-System"
Takeshi Hamashita, "East Asia: Historical Perspectives on the Sinocentric Tributary Trade System"
Takashi Shiraishi, "The Making of Southeast Asia"
Kaoru Sugihara, "The East Asian Pattern of Economic Development: Origins, Development, and Transformation of Labor-Intensive Industrialization"
Gary Hamilton, "East Asia Business Networks and State Interactions"
Peter Katzenstein, "Regional Orders: Technology in Asia and Europe"
Kenneth Pomeranz, "Households, Markets, and Accumulation: Women and Labor-Intensive Production in East Asia and Western Europe since 1400"
Ho-Fung Hung and Mark Selden, "Social Movements, System Trans- formation, and the Political Economy of East Asia, 1500- 2000"
Suk-Ying Wong and Weihsun Mao, "The Evolution and Meaning of World History Instruction in Three East Asian Societies: A World Culture/Polity Perspective"
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