One Industry, Two Chinas
Subtitle: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: September 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780804729987
Subjects: Economic history; Manufacturing industries; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Economic Policy; Textile And Clothing Industries (Economic Aspects); Business & Economics; History - General History; Silk industry; Business/Economics; China; History; Asia - China; Industries - General; History / China; Xishan Shi; Development - Economic Development; Commerce
Description: "This book reopens and restructures the grand debate on the nature of economic development in China prior to the Communist revolution. It rejects the debate's old contours in which quantitative data were used to argue that the trajectory of Chinese development was either "positive" or "negative." Instead, the author combines quantitative analysis with a detailed study of local politics, culture, and gender to explain the shaping of the modern Chinese economy."--BOOK JACKET.