"Through eight empirical studies, this volume explores the interplay between institutional change and economic performance in a constructed model of the treaty port economy in late-Qing and Republican China"--Provided by publisher

1. Posing the problem -- 2. Taiwan's political economies in historical perspective, 1683-1945 -- 2. Taiwan's new command economy and the tipping point, 1945-52 -- 4. The first debate, 1952-54 : command economy or market economy? -- 5. The second debate, 1954-58 : how to restructure the trade...