Imitation, counterfeiting and the quality of goods in modern Asian history. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kazuko Furuta, Linda Grove, editors.
• Editors: Furuta, Kazuko; Grove, Linda, 1944-
• Contents: 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 and Toshiaki USHIJIMA) -- 2 Market Approaches to Dealing with Cotton Adulteration in Early Twentieth Century China (Masataka SETOBAYASHI) -- 3 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 20th 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 20th Century Tianjin (Linda GROVE) -- 10 Assimilation and Industrialization: The Demand for Soap in Colonial Taiwan (Kensuke HIRAI) -- 11 Playing with "Alien Fire" (Yanghuo): Matches in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century China (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) -- Index.<.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.4/013; Quality of products -- Asia -- History; Product counterfeiting -- Asia -- History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Product counterfeiting; Quality of products; Economics; Economic History; Small Business; Asian Economics; Asia; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811037528; 9811037523; 9811037515; 9789811037511
• Related ISBNs: 9789811037511
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed October 26, 2017).
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