Chinese Capitalism 1522 1840

Author : Xu Dixin,Wu Chengming
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0312217293

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Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840 by Xu Dixin,Wu Chengming Pdf

This book offers a unique guide to China's long economic history and to the embryonic development of Chinese capitalism. It makes a classic work of Chinese economic history from top Chinese scholars available, in abridged form, for the first time in English. The immense historic sweep runs from the Late Ming period through the early mid Qing to the time of the Opium wars. In each period there are detailed surveys of sectors of the economy, both industrial and agricultural, and of the technological development and methods used, in addition to overviews of the nature of economic change in China and the retarded development of capitalism prior to the nineteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : China
ISBN : 0521243343

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The Cambridge History of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oliver Letwin
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785907203

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China vs America by Oliver Letwin Pdf

China's rise as a global superpower has completely reshaped the landscape of international politics. As the country's authoritarian regime becomes increasingly assertive on the world stage, the United States grows ever more hostile to its Asian rival. Repressive moves by China in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, military activities in the South China Sea and Western measures against Chinese companies have only exacerbated tensions. While the great powers of East and West battle over hegemony, the world is being led inexorably towards a new Cold War. During his time as a Cabinet minister attending National Security Council meetings, Oliver Letwin realised that there was no agreement among Western politicians and academics on how to conduct a peaceful long-term relationship with China. China vs America traces the contours of history, both ancient and modern, to explain how China has emerged as a challenger to American power in the twenty-first century and why this has created such uneasiness in the West. In this robust and controversial assessment, Letwin argues that the international rules-based order is completely ill-equipped to foster a positive relationship between China and the United States and that the global community must act now to correct the collision course these two behemoths are currently on before it's too late.

Author : Peer Vries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472526403

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State, Economy and the Great Divergence by Peer Vries Pdf

State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of detail on comparative state formation that has wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global history. Beginning with an overview of the historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature published on the topic to date. Incorporating recent insights, he offers a compelling alternative to the claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority, which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue. This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.

Author : Kaveh Yazdani,Dilip M. Menon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199099252

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Capitalisms by Kaveh Yazdani,Dilip M. Menon Pdf

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the West. Looking at regions as diverse as England, South America, Russia, North Africa, and East, South, West, and Southeast Asia, the book explores the plurality of developments across time and space. The chapters analyse aspects such as historical conjunctures, commodity production and distribution, circulation of knowledge and personnel, and the role of mercantile capital, small producers, and force—all the while stressing the necessity to think beyond present-day national boundaries. The book argues that the multiple histories of capitalism can be better understood from a trans-regional, intercontinental, and interconnected perspective.

Author : Ho-fung Hung
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231540223

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The China Boom by Ho-fung Hung Pdf

Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy—forces that are stymieing growth throughout the global South. Hung focuses on four common misconceptions: that China could undermine orthodoxy by offering an alternative model of growth; that China is radically altering power relations between the East and the West; that China is capable of diminishing the global power of the United States; and that the Chinese economy would restore the world's wealth after the 2008 financial crisis. His work reveals how much China depends on the existing order and how the interests of the Chinese elites maintain these ties. Through its perpetuation of the dollar standard and its addiction to U.S. Treasury bonds, China remains bound to the terms of its own prosperity, and its economic practices of exploiting debt bubbles are destined to fail. Hung ultimately warns of a postmiracle China that will grow increasingly assertive in attitude while remaining constrained in capability.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538103876

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Modern China by Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine Pdf

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Author : David Faure
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789622097834

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China and Capitalism by David Faure Pdf

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China's economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese business today. The book is written to be accessible to people with little background in China or Chinese business practice. Dr Faure describes three phases in the development of Chinese business from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. In the traditional phase, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Chinese business relied on contracts as well as on ritual propriety. In the modernizing phase, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, Chinese business had to adapt to the introduction of company law and legal standards of accounting. In the contemporary phase, from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, China emerged from a control economy to a vibrant market by embracing once again the changes introduced in the modernizing phase. General readers, including students and teachers in courses touching on but not primarily devoted to the Chinese experience, will find in this book the most comprehensive account of China's business development in the last five centuries and many insights into the workings of China's modern business scene. Specialist readers will find a highly original approach to the history of business in China.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968849

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Lineage Society on the Southeastern Coast of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424706

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Handbook Global History of Work by Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

Author : Franco Amatori,Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139438537

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Business History around the World by Franco Amatori,Geoffrey Jones Pdf

This 2003 book offered the first in-depth international survey of contemporary research and debates in business history. Over the two decades leading to its publication, enormous advances had been made in writing the history of business enterprise and business systems. Historians are documenting and analyzing the evolution of a wide range of important companies and systems, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact. Each essay is written by a prominent authority who provides an assessment of the state and significance of research in his or her area. This volume is a reference work that will be of immense value to historians, economists, management researchers, and others concerned to access the latest insights on the evolution of business throughout the world.

Author : Debin Ma,Richard von Glahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108425537

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The Cambridge Economic History of China by Debin Ma,Richard von Glahn Pdf

A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.

Author : Gipouloux, François
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800889903

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Elusive Capital by Gipouloux, François Pdf

Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution.

Author : Patrick Karl O'Brien
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030546144

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The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe by Patrick Karl O'Brien Pdf

This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history. Since its emergence, in now classic publications in economic history between 1997-2000, debate on the divergent economic development that has marked the long-term economic growth of China and Western Europe has generated a vast collection of books and articles, conferences, networks, and new journals as well as intense interest from the media and educated public. O’Brien provides an historiographical survey and critique of Western views on the long-run economic development of the Imperial Economy of China – a field of commentary that stretches back to the Enlightenment. The book’s structure and core argument is concentrated upon an elaboration of, and critical engagement with, the major themes of recent academic debate on the “Great Divergence” and it will be of enormous interest to academics and students of economic history, political economy, the economics of growth and development, state formation, statistical measurements, environmental history, and the histories of science and globalization.

Author : Wing-kin Puk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004306400

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The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China by Wing-kin Puk Pdf

In The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China, Wing-kin Puk explains the fate of Capitalism in late imperial China through the strange journey of a piece of paper: the Ming salt certificate.