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{"title":"A reverse salient: Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, 1914–1927","authors":"Chenxiao Li","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12309","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the formation and implementation of Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, especially German merchants, during the First World War, by positioning Japan within the context of the Allies' collective effort to enforce a global blockade. Although Japan enforced harsh measures in Qingdao, the economic sanctions on the home front were lenient compared with those of the European Allies and the United States. For this, Japan received diplomatic pressure from Britain. The Allies' pressure eventually led to Japan's policy switch before the end of the war. With respect to sanctions, Japan was a reverse salient among the Allies.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"112-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639314","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":"Toward the great divergence: Economic growth in the Yangzi Delta, 1393–1953","authors":"Runzhuo Zhai","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70003","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The dissertation was completed in 2023 at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Broadberry. This work was partly funded by Designated Studentship Scholarship of the University of Oxford and PhD Bursary Scheme of Economic History Society&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The full dissertation can be accessed through the Library of the University of Oxford&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This dissertation examines the economic growth process of the Yangzi Delta, one of China's most developed sub-regions, from 1393 to 1953. For the first time in the literature, an annual-frequency GDP series is constructed using an output-based approach. The new GDP data shed light on how the Yangzi Delta's economy evolved over seven centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the perspective of Chinese economic history, the nine Taihu Lake-centred prefectures studied in this dissertation had a GDP per capita well above the national average for a long time (~170%). However, before the mid-19th century, the local economy appeared to be trapped in what Mark Elvin (&lt;span&gt;1973&lt;/span&gt;) refers to as the ‘high-level equilibrium trap.’ While the GDP per capita exhibited a Malthusian-style growth pattern, numerous technological and managerial innovations allowed it to remain at a high level.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the context of global economic history, this dissertation incorporates the Yangzi Delta's directly calculated GDP into global GDP comparisons for the first time. Since the late 14th century, the Yangzi Delta maintained a GDP per capita level comparable to that of the most developed European economies, including those of Italy, the Netherlands, and Britain. However, by the late 17th century, this neck-and-neck growth pattern came to an end. From that point onward, the leading European economies surpassed the Yangzi Delta in terms of GDP per capita, and the gap widened irreversibly. In short, the Great Divergence is believed to have begun at the end of the 17th century.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This dissertation is divided into two sections: &lt;i&gt;Measuring Economic Growth&lt;/i&gt; (Chapters 2–4) and &lt;i&gt;Analysing Economic Growth&lt;/i&gt; (Chapters 5 and 6). To measure economic growth in the Yangzi Delta, I first examine the region's population and cultivated land in Chapter 2. Although many macro-level population and land-use figures exist in Chinese historical records, as Ho (&lt;span&gt;1959&lt;/span&gt;) pointed out, these figures cannot be used directly. The primary focus of Chapter 2 is to reconstruct data on population and cultivated land while considering institutional factors. From an institutional perspective, I delve into the traditions and practices of China's statistical system, explaining when the available data can be considered reliable and when it cannot. By carefully assessing the boundaries of the historical data, I am ultimately able to construct a complete set of benchmark data on population and cultivated land in the Yangzi Delta. In the long run, decreasing cultivated land per capita was the dominant characteristic of the regio","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"160-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639180","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":"Land revenue, inequality and development in colonial India (1880–1910)","authors":"Jordi Caum-Julio","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70002","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This dissertation was completed and conferred in 2023 at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Alfonso Herranz-Loncán (University of Barcelona) and Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena). It was financially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under an FPU scholarship. See the dissertation for full references and acknowledgements&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The dissertation can be accessed at&lt;/i&gt; https://hdl.handle.net/2445/206123.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Different institutional settings lead to different developmental outcomes (Acemoglu et al., &lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;). However, the effect of institutions on the distribution of the benefits of development remains relatively unexplored—particularly for colonial times. Similarly, research on the impact of institutions on the provision of public goods promoting human capital—other than education—has also remained understudied. With these broad research gaps in mind, in this dissertation I explore the impact of land revenue systems on the distribution of agricultural income and on the funding of hospitals and dispensaries in colonial India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Land revenue systems was an institution introduced by the British granting landownership—together with land tax liability—to different types of individuals. During their initial expansion, the British introduced a landlord system—where landownership was granted to an intermediary. As more regions came under British control, non-landlord systems were also introduced. In these systems, landownership was granted directly to the cultivator. Interestingly, Banerjee and Iyer (&lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;) find that these systems influenced post-colonial development, although their impact during the colonial period remains mostly unknown. Importantly, this dissertation presents the first comparative estimates of agricultural income inequality below the national level for colonial India. I also provide one of the first datasets with data for colonial India below the district-level. In particular, I construct a new georeferenced dataset with revenue and expenditure data for over 1600 hospitals and dispensaries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After a brief introduction, I explore the link between land revenue systems and the evolution of agricultural income inequality from 1880 to 1910. To do so, I use provincial wage/land price (&lt;i&gt;W&lt;/i&gt;/&lt;i&gt;LP&lt;/i&gt;) ratios to estimate agricultural income inequality. When correlating these new estimates with the presence of different land revenue systems, I find that in provinces with more landlord systems, agricultural income inequality increased less and, in some cases even decreased. I argue that this was due to the introduction of Tenancy Acts. These acts were mostly introduced in landlord provinces and limited rent rises as well as tenant eviction, reducing the landlords' capacity to increase their share of agricultural surplus over time. The correlation between some economic factors—like factor endowments—and the &lt;i&gt;W&lt;/i&gt;/&lt;i&gt;LP&lt;/i&gt; ratios does","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"163-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639046","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 politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition","authors":"Nan Li,&nbsp;Heqi Cai","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12307","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song. By comparing the county ranks through two dynasties, we find that political factors influenced rank elevation mainly near the capital while economic factors emerged as the primary driver of rank increases in southern regions, reflecting the economic center southward shift during the Tang–Song Transition.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"39-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.12307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638745","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":"Report of the editor of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review for 2024","authors":"Kris Inwood","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"169-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638744","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":"Rise of the south: How Arab-led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE","authors":"Zhiwu Chen,&nbsp;Zhan Lin,&nbsp;Kaixiang Peng","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re-creating the South. Between 742 and 1393 CE, prefectures with better access to maritime trade, or higher porcelain trade participation, experienced significantly higher population growth, but the predictive coefficient weakened substantially after the maritime trade ban of 1371 CE. These findings are robust after controlling for many confounding factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"3-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638731","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":"Between government and market: Building blocks of a new economic history of China's industrial development during the Ming dynasty (ca. 1368–1644)","authors":"Zipeng Zhang","doi":"10.1111/aehr.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"166-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143638847","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":"Information capacity in the mirror of foreign trade data? A case study of Chinese Maritime Customs, 1864–1938","authors":"Songlin Wang","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12308","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper introduces a new approach to explore the information capacity of the Chinese Maritime Customs from 1864 to 1938. It employs a mirror analysis by comparing Chinese Maritime Customs' international trade data with that of China's major trading partners: the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Findings reveal that Chinese Maritime Customs' improvements in measuring foreign trade frequently coincided with its institutional reforms. The results highlight that these improvements were not uniform across different regions. Specifically, the persistent discrepancies between Chinese Maritime Customs’ and Japanese data underscore the influence of geopolitics since late 19th century.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"79-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143639124","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":"‘He made it his rule never to grant licenses to married women’: Gender, licensing and the law in nineteenth-century New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand","authors":"Catherine Bishop,&nbsp;Nichole Hoskin","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article considers hotel licensing and gender across New Zealand, New South Wales and Victoria in the long nineteenth century, creating timelines of legislative changes and exploring the impact of business regulation and its implementation on women. It exposes a disconnect between law and licensing court practices, indicative of the ways entrenched understandings of gendered behaviours and local conditions affected women in business. It demonstrates that women's rights as publicans went backwards in New Zealand and New South Wales, just as other rights were expanding. It explores Victorian exceptionalism, Victoria legalising female licensees when others did not.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"64 3","pages":"341-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.12299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142707714","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":"Editor's notes","authors":"Kris Inwood","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"64 3","pages":"418-419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.12305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142707466","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}