With Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi The history of opium in China, prior to the publication of this volume, was traditionally approached as a deplorable episode in the history of nineteenth-century British imperialism, when British traders exported vast quantities of opium from India to China in order to balance their payments in the China trade. The volume Read more
The world since the 19th century has been a patchwork of nations constructed around mutually exclusive identities. The model emerged from the European experience of small competing states, but it became global in the 19th century, as old empires and newly formed states in the Third World struggled to assert diplomatic equality and autonomy. This Read more
With Hy V. Luong In recent years, most of the economies of Eastern Asia have been absorbed into global capitalism. Capitalism has transformed these economies, but the process has not been one-way. The cultures of Eastern Asia have in turn shaped how capitalism organizes labor, capital, and markets, in ways that could not have been Read more