Deng, Kent 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9795-3646
(2011)
China's political economy in modern times: changes and economic consequences, 1800-2000.
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
ISBN 9780415674058
Abstract
This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China’s institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordinary people’s daily material life from 1800 to 2000. Kent Deng reveals China’s mega-cycle of prosperity-poverty-prosperity without the usual attribution to the 1840 Opium War, or the alleged population pressure, class struggle and oriental despotism. The book challenges the conventional view on ‘rebellions’, ‘revolutions’ and their alleged motivations and outcomes. Its findings separate commonly circulated myth with reality based on solid evidence and careful evaluation. The benchmark used by the author is people’s entitlement and mundane day-to-day material well being, instead of the stereotype of aggregates of industrial hardware and national GDP. China’s Political economy in Modern Times proves that state-building was the prime mover in China’s modern history. Contrary to the popular belief in mass movement, Deng shows convincingly that changes were in most cases imposed by a minority with external help. Therefore, the quality of the state was unpredictable, seen from the anti-state that cost lives and economic growth.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.routledge.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Author |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | N - Economic History > N4 - Government, War, Law, and Regulation > N45 - Asia including Middle East |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2012 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2024 04:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/45647 |
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