China’s Road in the Great Divergence
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Author | : Yuping Ni |
Publisher | : Tsinghua University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2023-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 7302619379 |
This book is one of the few Chinese academic works published directly in English that discusses the similarities and differences in the paths of economic development between China and the West during the Qing Dynasty. It attempts to explore the very important question:Whether Qing China in the late 18th and early 19th centuries had a unique or similar path of economic development compared with Western countries?Also, when and why China lost its prominent position as the richest economy in world history, in the sixteenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century? Was this position lost because of policies by the Chinese state; policies on trade, taxes or trust, or was it about the access to coal, capital and colonies in the other countries? And when this happened, was it China that diverted from the standard track, or was it the country that took over; England, the Dutch Republic, or the young United States? This book not only provides answers to the above questions, but also critiques the existing historical GDP studies and "Great Diversion" studies, and emphasizes the importance of using first-hand historical data for research. The book brings such evidence to the table, fresh from the archives. Important data presented on fiscal and financial policies in the Qing Dynasty is put in context and discussed. It analyzes the population expansion and the countermeasures of the Qing dynasty before the "Malthusian Miracle"; estimates the total value of commercial output in the first half of the 19th century based on the market circulation of major commodities and tariff records; examines the changes in the Qing financial system with Xianfeng-Tongzhi reigns as the turning point; and analyzes the government borrowing activities during the this period as well as the Qing government's relief efforts during the Great Flood of 1823. Written by Yuping Ni, professor of Department of History, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University. He is a scholar who presented his material and ideas at seminars and workshops in different parts of Asia, Europe and the United States. During this year Ni published a book with Brill Publishers in Leiden (Customs Duties in the Qing Dynasty, ca.1644-1911), wrote an article—in cooperation with Dr. Martin Uebele—published in the Australian Economic History Review.
Author | : Kenneth Pomeranz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691217181 |
A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence—the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.
Author | : Alessia Amighini (a cura di) |
Publisher | : Edizioni Epoké |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2017-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 8899647631 |
Officially announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has since become the centrepiece of China’s economic diplomacy. It is a commitment to ease bottlenecks to Eurasian trade by improving and building networks of connectivity across Central and Western Asia, where the BRI aims to act as a bond for the projects of regional cooperation and integration already in progress in Southern Asia. But it also reaches out to the Middle East as well as East and North Africa, a truly strategic area where the Belt joins the Road. Europe, the end-point of the New Silk Roads, both by land and by sea, is the ultimate geographic destination and political partner in the BRI. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the BRI, its logic, rationale and implications for international economic and political relations.
Author | : Manuel Perez-Garcia |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9811578656 |
This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.
Author | : John M. Hobson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108840825 |
Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.
Author | : Peer Vries |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472526406 |
State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of detail on comparative state formation that has wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global history. Beginning with an overview of the historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature published on the topic to date. Incorporating recent insights, he offers a compelling alternative to the claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority, which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue. This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.
Author | : Rob Gifford |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2011-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1408806851 |
Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of this country make China Road an outstanding and funny travel narrative - part pilgrimage, part reportage - which illuminates a country on the move.
Author | : Peer Vries |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 135012169X |
The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
Author | : Honghua Men |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-07-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9811378800 |
This book aims to delve deeper into China’s Road studies, bringing together China’s leading scholars from different disciplines to examine, with reference to the grand strategies of major powers in the world, the strategically important issues that China faces, the interactions between domestic politics and international politics, and the way in which China seeks to become a world player. The book contains articles analyzing the history and reality of China’s road, domestic and international foundations of China’s Road, and China’s Road and the world’s future. The authors also discuss the unique aspects of China’s Road, as the properties and the selection of the system, ideas, and development model all comprise an unalterable socialist direction, government-led market economic system, human-oriented core ideas, and gradual reform. With balanced and peaceful development, cooperation, and mutual benefits as outstanding characteristics, China’s Road will ensure that China continues to progress.