Includes bibliographical references and index.

British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s / Shigeru Akita -- British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s / Yoichi Kibata -- The formation of an industrialization-oriented monetary order in East Asia / Kaoru Sugihara -- The Korean-centric Japanese Imperium and the transformation of the international system from the 1930s to the 1950s / Bruce Cumings -- Sterling, Hong Kong, and China in the 1930s and 1950s / Catherine R. Schenk -- Malaya and the sterling area reconsidered : continuity and change in the 1950s / Nicholas J. White -- Japan's commercial penetration of South and Southeast Asia and the cotton trade negotiations in the 1930s : maintaining relations between Japan, British India, and the Dutch East Indies / Naoto Kagotani -- China's relations with the international monetary system in the 20th century : historical analysis and contemporary implication / Tomoko Shiroyama -- China's economic development and the international order of Asia, 1930s-50s / Toru Kubo -- Continuity and discontinuity from the 1930s to the 1950s in Northeast China : the "miraculous" rehabilitation of the Anshan Iron & Steel Company immediately after the Chinese civil war / Toshiro Matsumoto -- The survival of economic elites during regime transition : government-merchant cooperation in Taiwan's trade With japan, 1950-1961 / Man-houng Lin.