Economic Change in China, c.18001950 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780521583961
Subjects: Economic History; Economics; Renaissance; Economic conditions; China - History; Economic Development; History; History - General History; History: World; China; Economic policy; Asia - China; China--Economic conditions; History / Renaissance; Development - Economic Development
First sentence: The analysis of the emergence of modern economic development in China has centred on four issues: the categorisation of the everall experience within the spectrum form decline through stagnation to growth and development; the extent of the foreign involvement and the nature of its relationship to the domistic economy; the complex interaction of forces which determined the dynamics of change in the increasingly labour-abundant land-scare rural economy; and the role of the state.
Description: "This introductory analysis of the process of economic change in China from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth looks at the nature of the traditional economy, covers the pressure it came under from both internal and external sources during the nineteenth century and assesses the evolution of modern features in the twentieth.

With maps, tables and bibliography to guide the student, this concise study will provide an invaluable introduction to crucial aspects of Chinese history."--BOOK JACKET.