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A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.
List of contents
Introduction to Volume II Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn; Part I. 1800-1950: 1. Ideology and the contours of economic change Debin Ma; 2. Economic transition in the nineteenth century William Rowe; 3. Agriculture Debin Ma and Kaixiang Peng; 4. Handicraft and modern industries Linda Grove and Toru Kubo; 5. The state and enterprises in late Qing China Chi-kong Lai; 6. State enterprises during the first half of the twentieth century Morris L. Bian; 7. Money and macro-economy Dan Li, Hongzhong Yan; 8. Public finance Elisabeth Kaske and May-li Lin; 9. Financial institutions and financial markets Bret Sheehan and Yingui Zhu; 10. Chinese business organization Madeleine Zelin; 11. The economic impact of the West: A reappraisal James Kung; 12. Foreign trade and investment Carol Shiue and Wolfgang Keller; 13. Transport and communication infrastructure Elisabeth Köll; 14. Education and human capital Pei Gao, Bas van Leeuwen, Meimei Wang; Part II. 1950-Present: 15. The origin of China's communist institutions Chenggang Xu; 16. China under the command economy in 1950-1977 Dwight H. Perkins; 17. Living standards in Maoist China Chris Bramall; 18. The political economy of China's Great Leap Famine James Kung; 19. China's external economic relations during the Mao era Amy King; 20. Chinese economy in the reform era Barry Naughton; 21. China's great boom as a historical process Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski.
About the author
Debin Ma is Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.Richard von Glahn is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Summary
The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present, in English. Volume II covers the period from 1800 to the present in twenty-one thematically and chronologically organized chapters, charting the development of the institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped China's modern economy.
