Mapping China's growth and development in the long run, 221 BC to 2020 / Kent Deng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deng, Kent G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--China--History.

Economic development.

China--Economic conditions.

China.

China--Social conditions.

China--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing Company, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based. It covers China's resource endowments, historical contingencies (such as civil wars, invasions and climate changes) and ideologies (including Legalism, Confucianism, Social Darwinism, nationalism, and Marx-Stalinism) that shaped the particular path of growth and development in China over two millennia. This book aims to take the reader through China's remarkably long and colourful saga of growth and development, full of ups, downs, twists and turns. It shows that China's experience has neither been linear nor trouble-free. China's long-term experience showcases the two fundamentals in growth and development: efficiency and equality. The lesson that one can learn from China's long history is that distributing incomes (equality) is as important as producing them (efficiency). By the same token, to secure growth and development, the political economy of government and governance is as critical in determining growth and development as resource endowments, technology, and market exchanges. This applied to China's past, and will inevitably apply to China's future."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; About the Author; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; 1. General Focus of the Book; 2. General Debates on China's Growth Performance; 3. General Narrative Style of This Book; 4. How to Define China and China's Historical Periods; 5. Structure and Thrust of This Book; Chapter Two: Size and Longevity of the Empire; 1. Size of the Empire; (1) A Stable Core and Moving Frontiers; (2) Demography and Migration; 2. Running Costs; 3. Longevity of the Empire; Chapter Three: Empire-building and Empire Maintenance; 1. From Zhou Feudalism to the Anti-feudal Qin Empire

2. Bureaucratic Monarchy: Its Structure and Daily Function(1) Fine-Tuning of the Empire System: Confucianisation of the Ruler and State-Peasant Alliance; (2) Long-term Impact of Confucianisation; Chapter Four: Key Institutions; 1. Confucian Values to Discipline Power-Holders; 2. Bureaucratic Monarchy and Bureaucratic Meritocracy; 3. Physiocracy, Landholding Property Rights, Tax Burden, and Agricultural Assistance; 4. Marriages, Family Structures, and Inheritance; 5. Anti-Merchant Attitudes, State Trade Monopoly and Peasant Commercialisation; 6. Relaxation of State Monopoly

Chapter Five: Public Goods Provision1. Physiocracy, Territorial Expansion, and Farmland Supply; 2. Public Works; 3. Technical Aid; 4. Social Welfare; 5. National Security and its Weakness; 6. Internal Public Goods and Internal Crises; Chapter Six: Highlights of the Economy of the Empire; 1. General Pattern: Extensive Growth; 2. Exceptional Population Growth during the Northern Song Period; 3. Rise of the Lower Yangzi Delta during the Ming; 4. Territorial and Commercial Growth during the Qing Period; 5. A Proto-Welfare State of the Qing and Population Growth; 6. Legacies of the Qing Rule

Chapter Seven: Growth after the Empire1. Changes and Growth Performance in the Republican Era (1912-49); 2. Changes and Growth Disasters during the Maoist Era, 1949-76; 3. Exit from Maoism, 1978 to 2010; 4. Growth Performance and Achievements, 1978-2010; 5. Problems and Challenges, 2010 to 2020 and beyond; 6. What Does the Future Hold for China?; Chapter Eight: Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-238) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

981-4667-56-0