The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 2. 1800 to the Present
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering in...
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering international scholarship in all dimensions of economic history to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of this tumultuous and dramatic transformation. In many cases, it offers a fundamental reinterpretation of major themes in Chinese economic history, such as the role of ideology, the rise of new institutions, human capital and public infrastructure, the impact of the Western and Japanese colonialism, the role of external trade and investment, and the evolution of living standards in both the pre-Communist and Communist eras. The volume includes seven important chapters on the Mao and reform eras and provides a critical historical perspective linking the past with the present and future.
-> Comprehensive but accessible coverage of all aspects of the modern Chinese economy
-> Combines thematic organization with broad temporal coverage across all of Chinese history in modern times
-> Contributions by a diverse range of international experts draw on the latest methodology of social science disciplines and scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages
Editors
Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Debin Ma is Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
Richard von Glahn, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard von Glahn is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Contributors
Debin Ma, Richard von Glahn, William Rowe, Kaixiang Peng, Linda Grove, Toru Kubo, ...
Editors
Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Debin Ma is Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
Richard von Glahn, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard von Glahn is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Contributors
Debin Ma, Richard von Glahn, William Rowe, Kaixiang Peng, Linda Grove, Toru Kubo, Chi-kong Lai, Morris L. Bian, Dan Li, Hongzhong Yan, Elisabeth Kaske, May-li Lin, Bret Sheehan, Yingui Zhu, Madeleine Zelin, James Kung, Carol Shiue, Wolfgang Keller, Elisabeth Köll, Bas van Leeuwen, Pei Gao, Meimei Wang, Chenggang Xu, Dwight H. Perkins, Chris Bramall, Amy King, Barry Naughton, Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski