CHINESE ECONOMIC HISTORY IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE: FOCUSING ON THE LATE IMPERIAL RURAL ECONOMY IN JIANGNAN
The Eurocentric growth model has been the basic workhorse for numerous Chinese economic historians. This deep seated Eurocentric paradigm is concerned mainly with conterfactuals and tends to ignore past reality. To illustrate the problems of this Eurocentric approach, this paper examines the rural economy of Jiangnan, also known as the Yangzi Delta, during late imperial times. A main characteristic of the villages in the Wuxi county in Jiangnan were the mixture of the rural-urban lifestyle and development. Jiangnan's developmental patterns, in the Song and the Qing dynasty, from the Maoist period (pre-1979) to post-1979 development, contrast sharply with the predictions of the Western development models. Copyright 2008 The Author. Journal compilation 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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2008
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Authors: | Li, Bozhong |
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Pacific Economic Review. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 13.2008, 3, p. 308-319
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Wiley Blackwell |
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