Singular Case
Subtitle: Debating China's Political Economy in the European Enlightenment
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780773548305
Subjects: Enlightenment; China, economic conditions
Description: Introduction : judging "schemes of oeconomy" -- Travelling knowledge in the "discerning age" : ethnography and Enlightenment -- "The most unscrupulous people on earth" : the paradox of China's commercial spirit -- "Your beggarly commerce!" China and international trade -- "The science of princes" : China's constitutional foundations -- "Duties of the sovereign" : civil and military successes and failures -- "Very ignorant reasoners" : China's science and technology -- Conclusion : prospects for the "stationary state".