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The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, To 1800

By Richard von Glahn , Debin Ma

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
1108442684, 9781108442688
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
8 MB (8674906 bytes)
Pages
732\0
Topic
History
Time added
2022-07-15 15:53:05
Economic History

Description

China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly new. Since 500 BCE, a dynamic market economy and the establishment of an enduring imperial state fostered precocious economic growth. Yet Chinese society and government featured distinctive institutions that generated unique patterns of economic development. The six chapters of Part I of this volume trace the forms of livelihood, organization of production and exchange, the role of the state in economic development, the evolution of market institutions, and the emergence of trans-Eurasian trade from antiquity to 1000 CE. Part II, in twelve thematic chapters, spans the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800 and surveys diverse fields of economic history, including environment, demography, rural and urban development, factor markets, law, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and living standards.

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