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.
Author(s): Debin Ma & Richard Von Glahn (eds.)
Series: The Cambridge Economic History of China
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 845
Tags: Economic History, Chinese History
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
