Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation - Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions

Informationen zum Autor Taisu Zhang is Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Klappentext "This is the second entry in a planned trilogy of books on how culture and ideology interacted with economic institutions, particularly legal ones, and how that interaction shaped the trajectory of Sino-European and Sino-Japanese economic divergence from the 18th Century to the early 20th. The first book, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism, was substantively completed in the summer of 2016-it was formally published in the fall of 2017-at which time I began to contemplate the possibility of expanding its core methodological framework onto a larger historical stage. It may have been somewhat foolish for an untenured junior scholar, two years out of graduate school, to plan for the long term in this fashion, but the idea that there is some sort of "grand strategy" behind the occasional mundanity of everyday work has given me much psychological comfort and a sense of direction over the years"-- Vorwort Surveys the fiscal history of China's last imperial dynasty and explains why its ability to tax was unusually weak. Zusammenfassung This survey of the fiscal history of China's last imperial dynasty explains why its ability to tax was unusually weak. It argues that the answer lies in the internal ideological worldviews of the political elite, rather than in external political or economic constraints. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A short history of qing taxation; 2. The uses and limitations of rationalist explanations; 3. Pre-qing fiscal regimes; 4. The early qing paradigm shift; 5. Mid-qing entrenchment; 6. Late qing reforms; 7. Theoretical implications.

Product details

• Authors: Taisu Zhang
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781316518687
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51868-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, macroeconomics, Economic history, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Politics and government, Political science and theory