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| 1. Korean Nobi and American Black Slavery: An Essay in Comparison |
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Young-hoon
Rhee* and Donghyu Yang**
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| This paper puts Korean nobi in international perspective-first-in comparison to the American black slavery, to capture their characteristics fully. Comparing Choson nobi-system prevalent in the 15th to 17th centuries and the black slavery in the antebellum southern United States, we found common features such that the two kinds of coerced labor had about one-third share in population; both were legally owner's chattel as subject to sales and inheritance; most black slaves and a part of the nobi were fed and worked by their masters' indicating they were of "true" slave status. On the other hand, although the average size of nobi-holding by Choson yangban (literati) was smaller than that of the American planters, the scale of ownership by some royal families and bureaucrats was beyond comparison. Read more…………. |
| 2. Party and Nation in Southeast Asia |
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Wang Gungwu*
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| When feudal kingdoms in Europe recognized that the people within their borders shared enough of culture and history to be organized as separate nations, political parties became increasingly important. These parties represented different interest groups, but were committed to making their nations richer, stronger and better integrated. That model was brought to other parts of the world following the retreat of imperial powers like Britain, France and the Netherlands. In Southeast Asia, the powers left behind states with communities that did not have either common cultures or similar histories. Read more…………. |
| 3. Anomaly as a Method : Collecting Chinese Micro-Theories of Transition |
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Chih-yu
Shih*
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| The teleology of transition to capitalism in general and China's turn to capitalism in particular prescribe for observers of China an academic agenda preoccupied with the conditions of establishing capitalism. Studies of transition in China have up to this point lacked bottom-up, past-oriented, and inside-out perspectives that would allow the formation of discourse for the masses, presumably driven by the force of transition to respond from their indigenous positions. To find what possible stories there could be if such perspectives that are not intellectually intelligible from the transition point of view are to be translated into transition narratives is the purpose of this paper. Epistemologically speaking, interpreting the case at hand as an anomaly could be a useful methodology to ameliorate the deterministic and teleological proclivity in the current literature on transition. Read more…………. |
| 4. Productivity Premia of Offshoring Firms in East Asia : Evidence from Japanese Firms |
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Ryuhel
Wakasugi*, Banri ito** and Elichi Tomiura***
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| During the period 2000-2009, offshore sourcing by Japanese firms to East Asian countries rapidly increased. Our survey on Japanese offshoring shows that 20 percent of the Japanese companies are performing offshore sourcing and more than 50 per cent of the companies with 300 or more employees are conducting offshore sourcing in China and other East Asian countries mainly for the tasks of manufacturing parts and intermediate goods or assembling final goods. Read more…………. |
| 5. Export and Growth Nexus in India : An Econometric Analysis |
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Pushpa
Trivedi* and Narayan Chandra Pradhan**
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| The study focuses on the 'export openness' of Indian economy which is expected to have a positive impact on economic growth. The temporal coverage of the empirical analysis carried out spans the period 1970-71 to 2008-09. The research question addressed in the study is whether exports are related to growth and if so, then in what direction? Empirical verification of export-let growth hypothesis by applying various time series techniques in this study confirms both short-run and long-run relationship between exports and economic growth. Bivariate Granger causality test suggests that the direction of causality runs from export growth to GDP growth. This implies that one can use export performance also to predict the growth of Indian economy rather than depending only on the time-series models. Read more…………. |
| 6. National Security versus National Development : Debating Asian Practices and Paradigms |
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Swaran
Singh*
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| With continuous expansion of narratives in both security and development paradigms their increasing overlap has resulted in new experiments of their fusion and integration. While much of this integration debate has been triggered and led by western academicians and institutions, it is here that the mosaic of Asian practices and paradigms feels certain comfort in joining in these debates and decision-making processes. In this, Asian narratives remain premised primarily on highlighting continuity of their historical legacies of unity-in-diversity, their shared path-dependencies on western (mainly colonial) models and formulations as also their growing autonomy from these Western powers and resultant, though as yet gradual, cooption (read partnership) into the evolving global practices and paradigms on both security and development sectors. Read more…………. |
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