Chinese capitalism, 1522-1840

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Chinese capitalism, 1522-1840

edited by Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming ; introduction by Wu Chengming and contributions by Wang Shixin ... [et al.] ; additional introductions by Chris Bramall and Peter Nolan ; English translation by Li Zhengde, Liang Miaoru, Li Siping ; edited and annotated by C.A. Curwen

（Studies on the Chinese economy）

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 2000

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Chung-kuo tzu pen chu i ti meng ya

Zhongguo zibenzhuyi de mengya

Zhongguo zibenzhuyi fazhan shi

中国资本主义的萌芽

中国资本主义发展史

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Bibliography p. 472-503

Includes index

Partial translation of original work

"Chung-kuo tzu pen chu i ti meng ya"--t.p. verso (CIP)

"First published in Chinese as Zhongguo zibenzhuyi fazhan shi, vol. 1, 1985"--T.p. verso

"The original title of this volume was Zhongguo zibenzhuyi de mengya"--Note on the translation

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Volume

: us ISBN 9780312217297

Description

This book offers a unique guide to China's long economic history and to the embryonic development of Chinese capitalism. It makes a classic work of Chinese economic history from top Chinese scholars available, in abridged form, for the first time in English. The immense historic sweep runs from the Late Ming period through the early mid Qing to the time of the Opium wars. In each period there are detailed surveys of sectors of the economy, both industrial and agricultural, and of the technological development and methods used, in addition to overviews of the nature of economic change in China and the retarded development of capitalism prior to the nineteenth century.
Volume

: uk ISBN 9780333497326

Description

This text offers a guide to China's long economic history and to the embryonic development of Chinese capitalism. It makes a work of Chinese economic history from Chinese scholars available, in abridged form, in English. The historic sweep runs from the Late Ming period through the early and mid Qing to the time of the Opium wars. In each period there are detailed surveys of sectors of the economy, both industrial and agricultural and of the technological development and methods used, in addition to overviews of the nature of economic change in China and the retarded development of capitalism prior to the 19th century.

Table of Contents

  • Imperial reign titles and units of weight and measurement
  • introduction P. Nolan, S. Fennell and C. Bramall
  • introductory essay, Wu Chengming. Part I Capitalism in the late Ming, Wang Shixi
  • agricultural growth and changing relations of production
  • commodity circulation and merchant capital
  • decline of state workshops
  • silk weaving in Suzhou and Hangzhou
  • the iron industry of Foshan, Guangdong. Part II Capitalism in agriculture in the early and mid Zing, Shi Qi and Fang Zhuofen: agricultural growth and the spread of cash crops
  • changes in tenancy and the hiring of labour
  • embryonic capitalism in agriculture. Part III Capitalism in the handicraft industry in the early and middle Qing (1), Shi Qui and Wang Zhuofen: the growth of commodity circulation and the rise of merchant organizations
  • tea, tobacco, distilling and oil
  • pressing
  • sugar refining
  • silk weaving in Suzhou and Zhejiang
  • cloth processing in Suzhou and Songjiang
  • paper making, printing and publishing
  • the Shaanzi timber industry. Part IV Capitalism in the handicraft industry in the early and middle Qing (2), Fang Zhuofen, Hu Tiewen, Jian Rui & Fang Xing: the iron industry
  • copper mining in Yunnan
  • coal mining in Boshan and Beijing
  • the porcelain industry of Jingdezhen
  • the Sichuan salt wells
  • Hedong lake
  • salt and Huainan sea salt
  • Shanghai maritime shipping. Part V Conclusions: the retarded development of capitalism, Fang Xing
  • the historical role of embryonic capitalism in China.

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