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Author: Yuping Ni Publisher: Tsinghua University Press ISBN: 7302619379 Category : History Languages : zh-CN Pages : 304
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This book is one of the few Chinese academic works published directly in English that discusses the similarities and differences in the paths of economic development between China and the West during the Qing Dynasty. It attempts to explore the very important question：Whether Qing China in the late 18th and early 19th centuries had a unique or similar path of economic development compared with Western countries？Also, when and why China lost its prominent position as the richest economy in world history, in the sixteenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century? Was this position lost because of policies by the Chinese state; policies on trade, taxes or trust, or was it about the access to coal, capital and colonies in the other countries? And when this happened, was it China that diverted from the standard track, or was it the country that took over; England, the Dutch Republic, or the young United States? This book not only provides answers to the above questions, but also critiques the existing historical GDP studies and "Great Diversion" studies, and emphasizes the importance of using first-hand historical data for research. The book brings such evidence to the table, fresh from the archives. Important data presented on fiscal and financial policies in the Qing Dynasty is put in context and discussed. It analyzes the population expansion and the countermeasures of the Qing dynasty before the "Malthusian Miracle"; estimates the total value of commercial output in the first half of the 19th century based on the market circulation of major commodities and tariff records; examines the changes in the Qing financial system with Xianfeng-Tongzhi reigns as the turning point; and analyzes the government borrowing activities during the this period as well as the Qing government's relief efforts during the Great Flood of 1823. Written by Yuping Ni, professor of Department of History, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. He is a scholar who presented his material and ideas at seminars and workshops in different parts of Asia, Europe and the United States. During this year Ni published a book with Brill Publishers in Leiden (Customs Duties in the Qing Dynasty, ca.1644-1911), wrote an article—in cooperation with Dr. Martin Uebele—published in the Australian Economic History Review.
Author: Yuping Ni Publisher: Tsinghua University Press ISBN: 7302619379 Category : History Languages : zh-CN Pages : 304
Book Description
This book is one of the few Chinese academic works published directly in English that discusses the similarities and differences in the paths of economic development between China and the West during the Qing Dynasty. It attempts to explore the very important question：Whether Qing China in the late 18th and early 19th centuries had a unique or similar path of economic development compared with Western countries？Also, when and why China lost its prominent position as the richest economy in world history, in the sixteenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century? Was this position lost because of policies by the Chinese state; policies on trade, taxes or trust, or was it about the access to coal, capital and colonies in the other countries? And when this happened, was it China that diverted from the standard track, or was it the country that took over; England, the Dutch Republic, or the young United States? This book not only provides answers to the above questions, but also critiques the existing historical GDP studies and "Great Diversion" studies, and emphasizes the importance of using first-hand historical data for research. The book brings such evidence to the table, fresh from the archives. Important data presented on fiscal and financial policies in the Qing Dynasty is put in context and discussed. It analyzes the population expansion and the countermeasures of the Qing dynasty before the "Malthusian Miracle"; estimates the total value of commercial output in the first half of the 19th century based on the market circulation of major commodities and tariff records; examines the changes in the Qing financial system with Xianfeng-Tongzhi reigns as the turning point; and analyzes the government borrowing activities during the this period as well as the Qing government's relief efforts during the Great Flood of 1823. Written by Yuping Ni, professor of Department of History, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. He is a scholar who presented his material and ideas at seminars and workshops in different parts of Asia, Europe and the United States. During this year Ni published a book with Brill Publishers in Leiden (Customs Duties in the Qing Dynasty, ca.1644-1911), wrote an article—in cooperation with Dr. Martin Uebele—published in the Australian Economic History Review.
Author: Christoph Butz Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3656006156 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 17
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 2,0, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (-), language: English, abstract: The industrial revolution in Europe, or more precisely, in Britain changed the global economy substantially. Major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining and transport through technological innovations led to a shift of global economic dominance from China to Europe between the 18th and 19th century. Until that point, China has been the largest and most efficient market-economy in the world, leading in agriculture, transportation and innovations. Every major contribution that led to the industrial revolution in Europe was also prevalent in China, but still the country did not do the next step forward and was overhauled by Britain quickly. The objective of this paper is to examine the reasons why an industrial revolution did not occur in China during the Ming/Qing period, although it was the leading economy in the world. Therefore, the first section will shortly outline the economic development of China before the 14th century. Thereafter, two different theories about the reasons for China’s stagnation will be explained, before a critical evaluation of both theories will be provided. Last, a conclusion will summarize the main findings of this paper and give an outlook on future debates.
Author: Kwok-wah Yip Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814397776 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 214
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The book discusses the development model of China which has now overtaken Japan as the world's second largest economy. This remarkable economic achievement has not followed the Western world's favorite developmental tools — of freedom, democracy and a market driven economy, but rather China's unique model — of one-party authoritarian rule with a mixed economy. the Middle Kingdom's way of development has largely questioned the West's core values — freedom and democracy. the book argues that the model is based on the country's 3,000-year-old civilization, forged by the efforts, innovations, trial and error process of several recent generations, and guided by the Chinese Communist Party in the past 60 years.
Author: Yuping Ni Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004324887 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 255
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The history of customs duties reflects the development of the Qing fiscal system, especially in its transition from a rather traditional to a more modern economy. Mainly based on Qing archives, this book, the first research monograph on this subject in the English language, not only gives a brief introduction of each customs post’s transformation over time, but also provides the complete statistical data of each of these post over the Qing dynasty. Contributors are: Bas van Leeuwen, Bozhong Li, Maaten Duijvendak, Martin Uebele, Peter Foldvari, Yi Xu.
Author: Ye Ma Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This paper reconstructs China's economic development between 1840 and 1912 with an estimation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It provides for the first time a time series of GDP (per capita) for the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), based on sectoral output and value added, in current as well as in constant prices. The present estimation of per capita GDP in the late Qing period comes out higher than previous estimations, but it still suggests low average levels of Chinese living standards. The economy during the late Qing Empire was characterized by a large and growing agricultural sector and displayed only minor structural changes. Only in the beginning of the twentieth century did the economy start to show signs of growth.
Author: Yongxiu Bai Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9789811645402 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 299
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This book is a systematic analysis of the trade interconnectivity, logistics, urbanization, and economic development among countries along the Silk Road. The prospects for cooperation amongst countries on the Silk Road are clarified in a book which will interest scholars of geopolitics, of economic growth, and of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Author: Yi Wen Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814733741 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 336
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The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of economic development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions, is highly inadequate in explaining China's rise. This book argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (as incorrectly portrayed by the institutional theory) can fully explain China's growth miracle and why the determined rise of China is unstoppable despite its current 'backward' financial system and political institutions. Conversely, China's spectacular and rapid transformation from an impoverished agrarian society to a formidable industrial superpower sheds considerable light on the fundamental shortcomings of the institutional theory and mainstream 'blackboard' economic models, and provides more-accurate reevaluations of historical episodes such as Africa's enduring poverty trap despite radical political and economic reforms, Latin America's lost decades and frequent debt crises, 19th century Europe's great escape from the Malthusian trap, and the Industrial Revolution itself.
Author: Mark Elvin Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300133537 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 592
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The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.
Author: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674057910 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 291
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Why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? The authors combine economic theory and historical evidence to argue that political processes drove the economic divergence between the two world regions, with continued consequences today that become clear in this innovative account.
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