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The premodern Chinese economy : structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility / Gang Deng.

By: Series: Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: xiv, 421 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415162394
  • 9780415162395
  • 0203031032 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
  • 9780203031032 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.951 21
LOC classification:
  • HC427.6 .D46 1999
Contents:
1. Introduction: problems and a new insight -- 2. Main factors in the Chinese socio-economic system -- 3. Trinary structure: origin, tension and equilibrium -- 4. Disequilibrium, cataclysm and recovery -- 5. External pressure and shock: the reinforcement of the pattern -- 6. Conclusion: deadlock in economic development -- App. A. Government profiteering -- App. B. The Ming-Qing price revolution and population growth -- App. C. Dissemination of agricultural technology in China -- App. D. Peasant behavioural patterns -- App. E. China's pseudo-feudalism -- App. F. Choices for a dualistic peasant household economy -- App. G. Estimation of tax rates -- App. H. Land reforms and anti-concentration of landholding
Summary: Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520 BC-1911 AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. The Premodern Chinese Economy is a comprehensive analysis of China's economic history and provides essential background to the study of this country's modern struggle for growth and development. Deng's emphasis on comparative analysis offers new insights into the concept of underdevelopment and theories of transitional economics.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-408) and index.

1. Introduction: problems and a new insight -- 2. Main factors in the Chinese socio-economic system -- 3. Trinary structure: origin, tension and equilibrium -- 4. Disequilibrium, cataclysm and recovery -- 5. External pressure and shock: the reinforcement of the pattern -- 6. Conclusion: deadlock in economic development -- App. A. Government profiteering -- App. B. The Ming-Qing price revolution and population growth -- App. C. Dissemination of agricultural technology in China -- App. D. Peasant behavioural patterns -- App. E. China's pseudo-feudalism -- App. F. Choices for a dualistic peasant household economy -- App. G. Estimation of tax rates -- App. H. Land reforms and anti-concentration of landholding

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520 BC-1911 AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. The Premodern Chinese Economy is a comprehensive analysis of China's economic history and provides essential background to the study of this country's modern struggle for growth and development. Deng's emphasis on comparative analysis offers new insights into the concept of underdevelopment and theories of transitional economics.

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