EditorTomoko Shiroyama is a professor in the Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo. Professor Shiroyama received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo and was awarded a Ph.D. by Harvard University (History, 1999). Her book China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937 (Harvard Asia Center, 2008) has been translated into Chinese and Japanese and was awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2012. Her research is on the banking and monetary system of modern China, the finance of Chinese businesses, and the trans-regional movement of goods, people, and institutions in Asia. Her most recent book, co-edited by Chi Cheung Choi and Takashi Oishi, Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and Formation of Regional Economy (Brill, forthcoming), examines the internal dynamics of Chinese and Indian merchant houses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explores their relationships with the Western powers in the region. Shiroyama is currently leading a project supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science called “Hydrosphere and Socioeconomics in Modern Asia: Exploring a New Regional History Using a Database and Spatial Analysis”, which combines meteorological history, hydrological history and socioeconomic history.

• Part I Asian Merchants and Commodities in the Global Trade of the Modern Era.- 1 Dutch Bank Transactions with Chinese Traders in the Dutch East Indies:The Java Sugar Trade and the 1917 Sugar Crisis (Yuko Kudo).- 2 The Growth of Intra-Southeast Asian Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Middlemen in Singapore (Atsushi Kobayashi).- 3 The British Atlantic Slave Trade and Indian Cotton Textiles: The Case of Thomas Lumley & Co.(Kazuo Kobayashi).- 4 The Export of Indian guinée to Senegal via France: Inter-colonial trade in the long nineteenth century (Toyomu Masaki).- Part II Book Reviews.- 5 Review of Osamu Saitō, Hikaku Keizai Hattenron: Rekishiteki Apurōchi (Comparative Economic Development: A Historical Approach)(Ayumu Banzawa).- 6 Review of Kaoru Sugihara, Kōhei Wakimura, Kōichi Fujita and Akio Tanabe (eds.), Rekishi no naka no Nettai Seizon ken: Ontai Paradaimu wo Koete (The Tropical Humanosphere in History -- beyond the "Temperate Zone" Paradigm)(TsukasaMizushima).- 7 Review of Mario Ōshima ed., Tochikishōka to Kinbenkakumei no Hikakushi – Keizaishi jō no Kinsei – (Land Scarcity and Industrious Revolutions - Comparative Studies on Early Modern Economies) (Ken’ichi Tomobe).- 8 Review of Kazuko Furuta ed., Chūgoku no Shijōchitsujo – 17seiki kara 20seiki Zenhan wo Chūshinni (Market Order in China – from the Seventeenth until the First Half of the Twentieth Century)(Hajime Kose).- Index.

EditorTomoko Shiroyama is a professor in the Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo. Professor Shiroyama received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo and was awarded a Ph.D. by Harvard University (History, 1999). Her book China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937 (Harvard Asia Center, 2008) has been translated into Chinese and Japanese and was awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2012. Her research is on the banking and monetary system of modern China, the finance of Chinese businesses, and the trans-regional movement of goods, people, and institutions in Asia. Her most recent book, co-edited by Chi Cheung Choi and Takashi Oishi, Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and Formation of Regional Economy (Brill, forthcoming), examines the internal dynamics of Chinese and Indian merchant houses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explores their relationships with the Western powers in the region. Shiroyama is currently leading a project supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science called “Hydrosphere and Socioeconomics in Modern Asia: Exploring a New Regional History Using a Database and Spatial Analysis”, which combines meteorological history, hydrological history and socioeconomic history.

• Part I Asian Merchants and Commodities in the Global Trade of the Modern Era.- 1 Dutch Bank Transactions with Chinese Traders in the Dutch East Indies:The Java Sugar Trade and the 1917 Sugar Crisis (Yuko Kudo).- 2 The Growth of Intra-Southeast Asian Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Middlemen in Singapore (Atsushi Kobayashi).- 3 The British Atlantic Slave Trade and Indian Cotton Textiles: The Case of Thomas Lumley & Co.(Kazuo Kobayashi).- 4 The Export of Indian guinée to Senegal via France: Inter-colonial trade in the long nineteenth century (Toyomu Masaki).- Part II Book Reviews.- 5 Review of Osamu Saitō, Hikaku Keizai Hattenron: Rekishiteki Apurōchi (Comparative Economic Development: A Historical Approach)(Ayumu Banzawa).- 6 Review of Kaoru Sugihara, Kōhei Wakimura, Kōichi Fujita and Akio Tanabe (eds.), Rekishi no naka no Nettai Seizon ken: Ontai Paradaimu wo Koete (The Tropical Humanosphere in History -- beyond the "Temperate Zone" Paradigm)(TsukasaMizushima).- 7 Review of Mario Ōshima ed., Tochikishōka to Kinbenkakumei no Hikakushi – Keizaishi jō no Kinsei – (Land Scarcity and Industrious Revolutions - Comparative Studies on Early Modern Economies) (Ken’ichi Tomobe).- 8 Review of Kazuko Furuta ed., Chūgoku no Shijōchitsujo – 17seiki kara 20seiki Zenhan wo Chūshinni (Market Order in China – from the Seventeenth until the First Half of the Twentieth Century)(Hajime Kose).- Index.