want more and more things? This book provides the first history of consumerism during the initial decades after the Chinese …

research is on political economy and social history. He has published many papers, and his books include An Economic History of …

Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism … (empirics); 5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history; 6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism; Conclusion …

study will be of huge interest to students and scholars working across a wide range of fields including Chinese history …, oral history, anthropology and gender studies"-- …

with other governance patterns in Chinese history. He also discusses the effectiveness of this governance pattern in …

there has been an absence of a comprehensive text dealing with Chinese economic history in the English language. An Economic … History of Modern China fills this important gap, focusing on modern Chinese economic growth and comprehensively surveying the … back to their foundations in history to explain their impact on China's modern economic growth …

history -- 4. The petty peasant economy and the formation of Chinese-style governmental governance -- 5. The dynamic evolution … Chinese history -- 10. Where does the future path of Chinese governance lie? -- Index. … with other governance patterns in Chinese history. He also discusses the effectiveness of this governance pattern in …