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{"title":"How did Japan catch-up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record","authors":"Stephen Broadberry,&nbsp;Kyoji Fukao,&nbsp;Tokihiko Settsu","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one-third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching-up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the United States. Although catching-up was driven by productivity growth in manufacturing, Japanese export success also depended on limiting the growth of real wages. Despite claims of a distinctive Asian path of labour-intensive industrialisation, capital played an important role in the catching-up process.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"3-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to ‘Migration to Australia, the transition from sail to steam, and the SS Great Britain’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Hatton, T.J.</span> (<span>2025</span>) <span>Migration to Australia, the transition from sail to steam, and the SS Great Britain</span>. <i>Asia-Pacific Economic History Review</i>, <span>65</span> (<span>2</span>), <span>173</span>–<span>191</span>. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70009\u0000 </p><p>On page 175, in the section ‘The Transition from Sail to Steam’, the date range at the end of the second paragraph should read as 1853–1857 instead of 1953–1957.</p><p>We apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The lascars' kettle: Lascar sailors on voyages to Australia and New Zealand in the late eighteenth century","authors":"Jennifer Ashton","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Between 1793 and 1796, three inter-related sailing voyages took place around the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. On board each of these voyages were lascar sailors drawn from the Indian Ocean. This article looks at the experience of these sailors and considers how the racial hierarchies present on each of the voyages were sustained or challenged during times of crisis. In particular, it considers how co-operation might be a productive frame through which to examine on-board relationships between lascars and European crew and officers.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"81-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No one to talk to: Australian small and medium enterprises, tacit knowledge and internationalisation","authors":"John Dean","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70026","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This dissertation was completed and conferred in 2025 at the University of Wollongong under the supervision of Senior Professor Simon Ville and Professor Olav Wicken (University of Oslo)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The full dissertation can be accessed through the Library at the University of Wollongong&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taxonomies of knowledge generally make a distinction between that which is codified and that which is tacit. Codified knowledge is structured, shareable and often formalised. It is recorded symbolically and flows through textbooks, lectures and digital platforms, forming the backbone of education systems and institutional learning. This type of knowledge is essential but is only half the story. Its complement, tacit knowledge, cannot be downloaded or easily taught. It is generated and diffused through experience, practice, observation and interpersonal engagement. The prototypical descriptions of its easy diffusion—featured in the literature on industry clusters, industrial districts, firm agglomerations and ecosystems—rely on proximity between the actors generating the knowledge and its recipients. This tacit knowledge provides the critical edge in activities such as opportunity identification, product development, production methods, evolution of marketing plans and establishment of distribution channels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The thesis contends that, in general, Australian firms have poor connections with the concentrations of leading firms and other organisations creating global innovation frontiers, termed Global Knowledge Towers (GKTs). This is because the Australian industrial ecosystem—the totality of the environment in which firms operate—includes very few of the leading firms that create the global innovation frontiers in their industries. Industrial ecosystems without connections to GKTs can only offer restricted learning opportunities, limited to the knowledge circumscribed by local firms. In most cases, direct serendipitous diffusion of this tacit industry knowledge from GKTs to Australian firms cannot occur easily.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The thesis argumentation is in two chapters. The first provides a historical analysis of official statistics on manufacturing output between 1907 and 2020. This paints a picture of a sector characterised by late establishment and small-scale firms. This analysis is supplemented by 11 industry sketches, compiled from the business histories of each industry's leading firms. This suggests that despite venturing into manufactures of increasing complexity, the sector remained derivative and duplicative. With encouragement from policy settings, production capability was prioritised, while other value chain functions remained much less developed. The sector's industrial ecosystem produced limited new-to-world innovation and where this did occur, it was often commercialised offshore, closer to markets and more comprehensive supply chains. This again stymied the strengthening of broader value chain capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extant research (Di","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"120-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abeyance and autonomy: Water management in Melbourne and Hong Kong, 1850–1939","authors":"Yin Hang Phoebe Tang","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"123-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monetary integration and purchasing power parity between Singapore and Britain during the 19th century","authors":"Atsushi Kobayashi","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the development of purchasing power parity between Singapore and Britain during the 19th century. Using new monthly data from 1831 to 1872, it finds that real exchange rates became more stable after the late 1850s. This convergence was supported by growing connections in international bullion markets, which reduced exchange rate fluctuations and aligned price levels. The findings highlight how monetary adjustments between silver-based Singapore and gold-standard Britain promoted long-run equilibrium. By applying historical price indices and bilateral exchange data, the study offers new insights into how external imbalances were managed in Asia before the global adoption of the gold standard.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"33-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic trends in Qing China: A response to Rawski's bold claims","authors":"Stephen Broadberry,&nbsp;Hanhui Guan,&nbsp;David Daokui Li","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Thomas Rawski challenges recent quantitative studies that find declining Chinese GDP per capita during 1700–1850 and suggests that the error margins around the component series for per capita grain supply should be widened, which would make it possible to accommodate stagnation, growth or decline. We show that there are good reasons to reject Rawski's wider error margins. We also reject Rawski's claim that there has previously been a consensus view of eighteenth-century Qing prosperity and demonstrate that trends in the other variables examined by Rawski tend to support declining per capita grain supply.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"99-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fugitive or orphan? The Shanghai yen in the early days of the Sino-Japanese war, 1938–1939","authors":"Shinji Takagi","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore a phenomenon observed during the Second Sino-Japanese War in which the value of the yen in Shanghai fell below the official rate. Shanghai provided a parallel market in which yen could be traded indirectly against British pounds through the intermediation of the Chinese yuan. The implied yen–pound rate was broadly approximated by purchasing power parity (PPP) before a significant divergence from PPP emerged in favour of the pound. This likely reflected negative news that signalled, among other things, a prospective withdrawal of Japanese yen as occupation money, which meant that the parallel market would close.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"58-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural commerce: How media exports made the British world in Australia, 1850–1990","authors":"Holly Swenson","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70025","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This dissertation was completed and conferred in 2024 at Northwestern University under the supervision of Professor Deborah Cohen, Professor Joel Mokyr, Professor Tracy Davis, and Professor Michael Stamm (Michigan State)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This dissertation was financially supported by Graduate Research Grants from Northwestern University&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;the Dorothy W. Collin Fellowship in the History of the Book from the University of Western Australia and a Postgraduate Scholarship from the National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Society&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;i&gt;The full dissertation can be accessed by communicating with the author&lt;/i&gt; via &lt;i&gt;email&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This dissertation examines the role of business practices in making British media dominant in Australia from 1850 to 1990. Drawing on archival research including business correspondence, sales catalogues, photographs, TV guides, and financial statements, it argues that commercial relationships played a critical role in developing and maintaining the cultural similarities between Britain and Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The questions of why and how Australians came to consume British media as soon as it was produced in Britain, why British media was regarded as superior to all others, and why its popularity lingered so long, still remain inconclusively answered by scholars (Curran &amp; Ward, &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;). Some historians have argued that the dominance of British media in Australia was the product of state-driven initiatives to export British culture, or ‘cultural imperialism’. Other scholars have seen it as an inevitable consequence of commodity export, migration and imperial institutions such as the Anglican Church and universities. My dissertation argues that this phenomenon was neither as accidental nor as wholly ideological as it has been portrayed by scholars who have neglected to consider media export on its own terms—as a business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Foregrounding the commercial nature of media circulation, this dissertation argues that British media came to predominate and persist in Australia because of the path-dependent consequences of business relationships. Drawing on five case studies from 1850 to 1990, it argues that British media export followed a common pattern. Initially, British media producers sought out Australian markets as a convenient source of additional income. Australian intermediaries such as book importers, theatrical impresarios, and television executives purchased British goods because they were marketed as (and often were) high quality, and because they could cultivate beneficial business relationships with British firms. Only later did Australian businesspeople find themselves in a bind of their own making. Having convinced consumers that British media was the ‘highest quality’, they were economically driven to continue importing British media even when it became scarce or expensive, as the costs to redress chronic underinvestment in domestic media were prohibitively high. British media","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"117-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From ordinary to innovative: Post-industrial renewal and innovation clusters in Melbourne","authors":"Lee-Anne Khor,&nbsp;Simone Sharpe,&nbsp;Gary Magee,&nbsp;Lionel Frost,&nbsp;Seamus O'Hanlon","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines interrelationships between industrial, urban and social change in a post-WW2 outer Melbourne industrial district. Using a range of data and disciplinary perspectives, we identify the factors that attracted Bosch Australia and other manufacturing firms to Clayton, now a major innovation district that is home to Monash University. Mapping the development of the Bosch Clayton plant and its links with the broader development of the district, we show how the built and social fabric that evolved to support innovators provides both assets and obstacles to post-industrial renewal.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 3","pages":"397-424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145443245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}