Premodern Chinese Economy : Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. These factors include: * resource endowments * socio-economic structure * property rights * state and bureaucracy * ideology and values * geo-political environment * internal rebellions * external invasions and conquestsThe 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

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Deng, Gang
Publisher:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
Subject:	China \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Strukturwandel \| Structural change
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (436 p)
Series:	Routledge Explorations in Economic History Routledge Explorations in Economic History Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record 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 Choices for a dualistic peasant household economyEstimation of tax rates; Land reforms and anti-concentration of landholding; Population growth and arable land; Data concerning mass rebellions; Cotton and its diffusion in China; Bibliography; Index
ISBN:	978-0-415-16239-5 ; 978-0-203-03103-2 ; 978-0-415-16239-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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