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The premodern Chinese economy : structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility / Gang Deng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deng, Kent G.
- Series:
- Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13.
- Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history.
- China--Economic conditions--To 1644.
- China.
- China--Economic conditions--1644-1912.
- China--History--Shang dynasty, 1766-1122 B.C.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (436 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-408) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-71655-9
- 1-134-71656-7
- 1-280-33094-5
- 0-203-03103-2
- 0-203-17125-X
- 9780203031032
- OCLC:
- 560057157
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