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- Title
CHINESE ECONOMIC HISTORY IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE: FOCUSING ON THE LATE IMPERIAL RURAL ECONOMY IN JIANGNAN.
- Authors
Bozhong Li
- Abstract
The Eurocentric growth model has been the basic workhorse for numerous Chinese economic historians. This deep seated Eurocentric paradigm is concerned mainly with conterfactuals and tends to ignore past reality. To illustrate the problems of this Eurocentric approach, this paper examines the rural economy of Jiangnan, also known as the Yangzi Delta, during late imperial times. A main characteristic of the villages in the Wuxi county in Jiangnan were the mixture of the rural–urban lifestyle and development. Jiangnan's developmental patterns, in the Song and the Qing dynasty, from the Maoist period (pre-1979) to post-1979 development, contrast sharply with the predictions of the Western development models.
- Subjects
YANGTZE River (China); CHINA; ECONOMIC history -- 1945-; HISTORY of economic development; ECONOMETRIC models; RURAL development
- Publication
Pacific Economic Review, 2008, Vol 13, Issue 3, p308
- ISSN
1361-374X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0106.2008.00406.x