Trade on modern sundry goods and the rise of markets for copy and counterfeiting goods in 19th and 20th centuries Asia

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380437
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: Furuta Kazuko 慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 教授 (20173536)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 模造 / コピー品 / 雑貨 / アジア間貿易 / アジア経済史 / 商標 / 輸入代替 / 現地生産

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Fake, imitation, and counterfeit goods have long plagued domestic and international trade. While we are all familiar with contemporary attempts to control the manufacture and sales of such goods, economic historians have given the subject little attention. This project focused on problems associated with imported everyday-use sundry goods (zakka in Japanese) and the role played by local production of imitations, the rise of markets for counterfeiting and shoddy goods, import substitution/export oriented industrialization and the development of labor intensive small scale industry, and the acceptance of "new products"in the recipient societies in 19th and 20th centuries Asia.

Free Research Field

アジア経済史