The premodern Chinese economy structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility
Title:
The premodern Chinese economy structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility
Author:
Deng, Gang, 1953-
ISBN:
9780203031032
9780415162395
9780203171257
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 421 p.) : ill.
Series:
Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13
Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13.
Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: problems and a new insight; Main factors in the Chinese socio-economic system; Trinary structure: origin, tension and equilibrium; Disequilibrium, cataclysm and recovery; External pressure and shock: the reinforcement of the pattern; Conclusion: deadlock in economic development; Appendices; The Ming-Qing price revolution and population growth; Dissemination of agricultural technology in China; Peasant behavioural patterns; China's pseudo-feudalism
Abstract:
Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), this book examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment.
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