The Premodern Chinese Economy - Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Main Factors in the Chinese Socio-economic System 3. Trinary Structure 4. Disequilibrium, Cataclysm and Recovery 5. External Pressure and Shock: the Reinforcement of the Pattern 6. Conclusion: Dead Lock in Economic Development Appendices

Summary

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), this book examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment.

Product details

• Authors: Gang Deng, Deng Gang
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.1999
• EAN: 9780415162395
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16239-5
• No. of pages: 436
• Weight: 970 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; China, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History