The Cambridge economic history of China volume II 1800 to the present / edited by Debin Ma (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) and Richard von Glahn (University of California, Los Angeles)

"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 Western and Japanese imperialism, 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."--Provided by publisher List of Figures page viii List of Maps xi List of Tables xii List of Contributors to Volume II xv Acknowledgments xvii Note on Citations xix Introduction to Volume II 1 debin ma and richard von glahn part I 1800 – 1950 1 . Ideology and the Contours of Economic Change 15 debin ma 2 . Economic Transition in the Nineteenth Century 48 william t. rowe 3 . Agriculture 87 debin ma and kaixiang peng 4 . Handicraft and Modern Industries 124 linda grove and to ̄ ru kubo 5 . The State and Enterprises in Late Qing China 167 chi-kong lai 6 . State Enterprises during the First Half of the Twentieth Century 184 morris l. bian 7 . Money and the Macro-economy 208 dan li and hongzhong yan 8 . Public Finance 244 elisabeth kaske and may-li lin 9 . Financial Institutions and Financial Markets 280 brett sheehan and yingui zhu 10 . Chinese Business Organization 324 madeleine zelin 11 . The Economic Impact of the West: A Reappraisal 354 james kai-sing kung 12 . Foreign Trade and Investment 414 wolfgang keller and carol h. shiue 13 . Transport and Communication Infrastructure 457 elisabeth ko ̈ ll 14 . Education and Human Capital 496 pei gao, bas van leeuwen, and meimei wang part I I 1950 TO THE PRESENT 15 . The Origin of China’s Communist Institutions 531 chenggang xu 16 . China’s Struggle with the Soviet Growth Model, 1949–1978 565 dwight h. perkins 17 . Living Standards in Maoist China 606 chris bramall 18 . The Political Economy of China’s Great Leap Famine 642 james kai-sing kung 19 . China’s External Economic Relations during the Mao Era 685 amy king 20 . The Chinese Economy in the Reform Era 722 barry naughton 21 . China’s Great Boom as a Historical Process 775 loren brandt and thomas g. rawski Index 829 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 Western and Japanese imperialism, 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.-- Provided by publisher "Continental East Asia during the first millennium BCE transitioned from a redistributive "gift-giving economy" (or "prestige-good economy") to a thriving market economy that was at least partly monetized. This transformation-gradual but all-encompassing and irreversible-led to a veritable "economic miracle" during the Warring States period (c. 450-221 BCE), which brought unprecedented prosperity to large portions of the population. It will here be discussed through its reflections in the material record, spanning the eight centuries from c. 1000 BCE down to approximately the time of the Qin unification in 221 BCE.1 During this period, the Zhou kingdom and its constituent polities formed a relatively homogeneous culture area encompassing the Middle and Lower Yellow River basin and the Middle Yangzi basin. Archaeological discoveries attest that, over time, many of the surrounding smaller and sociopolitically less complex regional cultures-defined by archaeologists on the basis of their material remains-were increasingly drawn into the Zhou orbit"-- Provided by publisher "China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly new. Since 500 BCE, a dynamic market economy and the establishment of an enduring imperial state fostered precocious economic growth. Yet Chinese society and government featured distinctive institutions that generated unique patterns of economic development. The six chapters of Part I of this volume trace the forms of livelihood, organization of production and exchange, the role of the state in economic development, the evolution of market institutions, and the emergence of trans-Eurasian trade from antiquity to 1000 CE. Part II, in twelve thematic chapters, spans the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800 and surveys diverse fields of economic history, including environment, demography, rural and urban development, factor markets, law, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and living standards."--Provided by publisher "When visited by the British trade mission led by Lord George Macartney, who aimed to show off the best of Western trade and technology, the Qianlong emperor of Qing China was known to have famously replied in 1792 that "Our Celestial Empire possesses all things in prolific abundance and lacks no product within its borders. There is therefore no need to import the manufactures of outside barbarians in exchange for our own produce."2 Qianlong's statement came at the height of Qing's glory, overseeing a remarkable tripling of population and a doubling of territory between the 15th and 18th centuries. No single political entity at the time achieved such size in both geography and population under such stability and durability"-- Provided by publisher Building on a wide array of recent scholarship, the two volumes of The Cambridge Economic History of China bring together the fruits of pioneering international studies in all dimensions of economic history, past and present. Exploring themes including political economy, agriculture, industry and trade, technology, ecological change, demography, law, urban development, standards of living, consumption, financial institutions, and national income, the two volumes together provide broad temporal coverage across all of Chinese history, including recent developments in contemporary China. A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.