The external economic expansion of the West and the response of the internal structures of Eastern societies to it already presuppose two completely different sets of research sources. In fact, there are more of them. And almost every one of them is interdisciplinary. The following articles from the cycle I have planned, which begins with this publication, will mainly describe the final results of scientific research. Of course, they are fully supported by the relevant research apparatus. This device is transparent for possible verification, given in the dynamics of studying the problem by my predecessors or in showing the logic of the development of my reasoning. Another issue is the formation of analytical tools, the search for comparable macro-indicators that would synthetically provide answers to the main trends in economic communication between the West and the East, and the very complex reaction of the latter to entering the world capitalist economy. Such a display of the preliminary research laboratory in these articles would only disperse the concentration of the final argumentation, would make their structure more loose. And here it is appropriate. Moreover, it is necessary for the following reason: what in the future will look like a fairly "smooth" selection of indicators that smoothly flows from one chronological period to another, or, for example, from the system of foreign trade statistics to estimates of agricultural marketability, or, for another example, to the relationship between tax switching and external influences, in fact the case was recreated bit by bit. Often this was done only through a comprehensive study of completely different primary sources and scientific literature, when, suddenly, the commodity structure of European imports intersected with the nature of the relationship between an Asian city and its rural periphery. Here is a working picture that remains in the background (in future articles it will appear only in fragments) I'm go ... Read more