This empirical study of the historical development of China's rural economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s looks at the factors of farm tenancy and management, the development of cash crops, the Chinese banking system, the growth of trade, and other issues such as labor, technology, geography, and political development to present a thought-provoking discussion of the "pessimistic" and "optimistic" approaches to the plight of Chinese peasants and farmers.

The Rural Economy of Pre-Liberation China: Trade Expansion and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937 (South-East Asian Historical Monographs)

Business & Money

Faure, David

Economics

Oxford University Press

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state―first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China

History

Asia

Stanford University Press

The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the emergence of political reforms in the early 1920s and 1930s which separated cities and towns as agents of social change and encouraged a perception of rural backwardness. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and distinctions between urban and rural life and the effect on the Chinese sense of identity from the sixteenth century to the present day. It provides a daunting example of the influence that political ideology may exert on an individual's sense of place.

Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception (St Antony's Series)

Liu, Tao Tao

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture)

This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in simple language, guides the reader through a complex literature and presents a unique point of view.

Hong Kong University Press

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China’s economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese business today. The book is written to be accessible to people with little background in China or Chinese business practice. Dr Faure describes three phases in the development of Chinese business from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. In the traditional phase, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Chinese business relied on contracts as well as on ritual propriety. In the modernizing phase, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, Chinese business had to adapt to the introduction of company law and legal standards of accounting. In the contemporary phase, from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, China emerged from a control economy to a vibrant market by embracing once again the changes introduced in the modernizing phase. General readers, including students and teachers in courses touching on but not primarily devoted to the Chinese experience, will find in this book the most comprehensive account of China’s business development in the last five centuries and many insights into the workings of China’s modern business scene. Specialist readers will find a highly original approach to the history of business in China.

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The Rural Economy of Pre-Liberation China: Trade Expansion and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937 (South-East Asian Historical Monographs)

Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China

Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception (St Antony's Series)

China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture)

China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture)