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.
| ISBN: | 9780312217297 |
| Publication date: | 7th January 2000 |
| Author: | X Dixin, W Chengming |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 517 pages |
| Series: | Studies on the Chinese Economy |
| Genres: |
Interdisciplinary studies |
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.
Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840 features in the following genres: Interdisciplinary studies
Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840 is available in Hardback
Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840 was written by X Dixin, W Chengming and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840 has 517 pages
Yes it is part of Studies on the Chinese Economy series
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