Imitation, Counterfeiting and the Quality of Goods in Modern Asian History

Chapter 1 Asymmetry of Information, Trust-Building and Market Quality: Governing the Quality of Goods in Modern Asia

Chapter 2 Market Approaches to Dealing with Cotton Adulteration in Early Twentieth-Century China

Chapter 3 The Fraudulent Fertilizer Problem in the Late Meiji Era: Credibility Acquisition by New Market Entrants and the Agricultural Experiment Stations

Chapter 4 Two Paths Toward Raising Quality: Fertilizer Use in Rice and Sugarcane Cultivation in Colonial Taiwan (1895–1945)

Chapter 5 Quality as a Moving Target: Japanese Tea, Consumer Preference, and Federal Regulation on the US Market

Chapter 6 Merchant Association Networks and Product Quality Control: A Case Study of the Silk Pongee Industry in Shandong

Chapter 7 Imitation and Innovation in the Early Twentieth-Century North China Weaving Industry

Chapter 8 Imitation, Counterfeiting, and the Market in Early Twentieth Century Japan and China: Intra-Asian Trade in Modern Small Sundry Goods

Chapter 9 Technology Transfer, Imitation and Local Production: The Soap Industry in Early Twentieth-Century Tianjin

Chapter 10 Assimilation and Industrialization: The Demand for Soap in Colonial Taiwan

Chapter 11 Playing with “Alien Fire” ( Yanghuo ): Matches in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century China

Chapter 12 From Emulation to Innovation: Japanese Toy Exports to High-Income Countries Before World War II

Chapter 13 Bottom-Up Industrialization in the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of Industries Producing Small Things in Zhejiang