, China, and England. Japan is similar in size to a European country and linked to China through shared beliefs and practices …. Such an approach allows us to mediate comparisons made directly between China and Europe and to avoid taking England as the …

"Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism …: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre … Republican China, under which advanced age and generational seniority were the primary determinants of sociopolitical status …

comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry …Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern …" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603-1868), and by …

conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India … the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and …, characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of …