China Transformed Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience / R. Bin Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Roy Bin., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--China.

Social change.

China--History.

China.

China--Economic conditions.

China--Foreign public opinion. European.

Europe--Relations--China.

Europe.

China--Relations--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

[5th] paperback printing.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China.... It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."-Timothy Brook, Stanford University"This is a most extraordinary book. Wong's approach is to explore carefully similarities and differences between Chinese and European development over the long term, highlighting themes related to state-making and popular action. This is by far the most sophisticated, extended discussion of imperial and modern China in comparative perspective that I have seen."-Peter C. Perdue, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe assumption still made in much social science research that Europe provides a universal model of development is fundamentally mistaken, according to R. Bin Wong. The solution is not, however, simply to reject Eurocentric norms but to build complementary perspectives, such as a Sinocentric one, to evaluate current understandings of European developments. A genuinely comparative perspective, he argues, will free China from wrong expectations and will allow those working on European problems to recognize the distinct character of Western development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Beyond European Models of Historical Change

One Thousand Years of Chinese History and Western Social Theory

A Disclaimer and a Defense

Part I. Economic History and the Problem of Development

1. Economic Change in Late Imperial China and Early Modern Europe

2. Dynamics of Industrial Expansion in Early Modern Europe and Late Imperial China

3. Making Modern Economies

Part II. State Formation and Transformation in Eurasia

4. Chinese and European Perspectives on State Formation and Transformation

5. Constructing Domestic Order

6. Political Economies in Europe and China

7. The Chinese State after 1850

8. China after 1949

Part III. Politics, Protest, and Social Change

9. Grain Seizures and Political Economy

10. State Making, Fiscal Negotiations, and Tax Resistance

11. Revolutions

12. Comparative History and Social Theory

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Oorspronkelijke uitgave: 1997. 1e paperback uitgave: 2000.

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ISBN:

9781501736049

1501736043

OCLC:

1083583688