The Imperial Mode of China. An Analytical Reconstruction of Chinese Economic History 1st edition

The Imperial Mode of China. An Analytical Reconstruction of Chinese Economic History  1st edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031270147,3031270142,9783031270154, 3031270150

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• ISBN 10: 3031270150
• ISBN 13: 9783031270154
• Author: George Hong Jiang

Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the ‘imperial mode’ of China. The book aims to innovatively apply a cohesive historical materialist framework to the economic evolution of China, while at the same time offering micro-analysis of China’s institutions throughout its history. Taking a long-run perspective, from ancient China up until the present, the book aims to show how Chinese economic history can be viewed as a dynamic evolutionary process consisting of various stages. The first part of the book lays out the imperial mode as a mode of production based on China’s agricultural economy, with a structure consisting of a central authority, the bureaucratic system, and the peasantry. The second part then chronologically examines the different dynasties through this analytical lens and suggests ways in which China’s resistance to institutional changesin the early modern period has had long-lasting consequences for its economic development. The book goes on to show how the imperial mode is able to facilitate the agricultural economy, but did not foster the modern commercial and industrial economy. It integrates modern China into the long wave of economic history, showing how this imperial mode still exerts influence on China’s current path of development, as well as introducing a new way of understanding communist China from a historical perspective. This book will have interdisciplinary appeal for researchers and students of economic history, economic development, the history of China, economic sociology, and social history more broadly.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Empire-Building in the Pre-Qin Era
3. Thought Matters
4. The First Phase: The Han Variant
5. The Second Phase: The Song Variant
6. A Historical Pattern: The Imperial Mode
7. The Great Divergence I: The West
8. The Great Divergence II: China
9. Pursuing Modernisation in China
10. To Understand China: Past and Future

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