num_pages: 344
description: This monumental work reveals the continuities that underlie the changing surface of Chinese life from late imperial days to modern times. With a perspective that encompasses a thousand years of Chinese history China's Motor provides a view of the social economic and political principles that have prompted people in widely varying circumstances to act believe and behave in ways that are labeled as Chinese. This original reinterpretation of Chinese culture as meticulous in detail as it is vast in scope will revise not only the study of China but also the very terms of social analysis.
language: English
title: China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
publisher: Cornell University Press