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.
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'I greatly enjoyed this work, as much as the first volume. The research is incisive, clearly presented, and the volume is very cogently organized.' Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.net (Economic History Association)
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A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.
Introduction to Volume II Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn; Part I.
18001950:
1. Ideology and the contours of economic change Debin Ma;
2.
Economic transition in the nineteenth century William Rowe;
3. Agriculture
Debin Ma and Kaixiang Peng;
4. Handicraft and modern industries Linda Grove
and Toru Kubo;
5. The state and enterprises in late Qing China Chi-kong Lai;
6. State enterprises during the first half of the twentieth century Morris L.
Bian;
7. Money and macro-economy Dan Li, Hongzhong Yan;
8. Public finance
Elisabeth Kaske and May-li Lin;
9. Financial institutions and financial
markets Bret Sheehan and Yingui Zhu;
10. Chinese business organization
Madeleine Zelin;
11. The economic impact of the West: A reappraisal James
Kung;
12. Foreign trade and investment Carol Shiue and Wolfgang Keller;
13.
Transport and communication infrastructure Elisabeth Köll;
14. Education and
human capital Pei Gao, Bas van Leeuwen, Meimei Wang; Part II. 1950Present:
15. The origin of China's communist institutions Chenggang Xu;
16. China
under the command economy in 19501977 Dwight H. Perkins;
17. Living
standards in Maoist China Chris Bramall;
18. The political economy of China's
Great Leap Famine James Kung;
19. China's external economic relations during
the Mao era Amy King;
20. Chinese economy in the reform era Barry Naughton;
21. China's great boom as a historical process Loren Brandt and Thomas G.
Rawski.
Debin Ma is Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. Richard von Glahn is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
