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The laws and economics of Confucianism : kinship and property in pre-industrial China and England / Taisu Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Taisu, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
- Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kinship (Law)--China--History.
- Kinship (Law).
- Kinship (Law)--England--History.
- Property--China--History.
- Property.
- Property--England--History.
- Confucianism--Philosophy.
- Confucianism.
- Confucianism and law.
- Confucianism--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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-industrial economic development went down different paths. The dominance of Neo-Confucian social hierarchies in Late Imperial and Republican China, under which advanced age and generational seniority were the primary determinants of sociopolitical status, allowed many poor but senior individuals to possess status and political authority highly disproportionate to their wealth. In comparison, landed wealth was a fairly strict prerequisite for high status and authority in the far more 'individualist' society of early modern England, essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions of prestige and leadership. Zhang argues that this social difference had major consequences for property institutions and agricultural production.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Dian' sales in Qing and Republican China; 2. Mortgages in early modern England; 3. Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (theories); 4. Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (empirics); 5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history; 6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism; Conclusion; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-108-50649-6
- 1-108-51394-8
- 1-108-51543-6
- 1-108-51692-0
- 1-108-52437-0
- 1-316-49332-6
- 1-108-51841-9
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