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A ‘Third Culture’ in Economics? An Essay on Smith, Confucius and the Rise of China
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The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China
No full textMadeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern China's development
The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xviii + 280 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9-622-09749-9.
No full textFrom Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. By Elizabeth Köll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-674-01394-8.
No full textA Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence: Fu-hui ch'üan-shu, a Manual for Local Magistrates in Seventeenth-Century China, by Huang Liu-hung. Translated by Djang Chu. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984. xvi, 656 pp. Glossary, Index. $37.50.
No full textSalt Production Techniques in Ancient China: The Aobo Tu. By Yoshida Tora. Translated and revised by Hans Ulrich Vogel. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1993. xxv, 309 pp. GLD 135.00; $77.14.
No full textChina's Cultural Heritage: The Ch'ing Dynasty 1644–1912, By Richard J. Smith. [Boulder: Westview Press, 1983. 321 pp. £16·50.]
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