Margherita Zanasi

Economic Thought in Modern China

Market and Consumption, C.1500-1937

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Zanasi argues that notions of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged earlier in China than in Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 166mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108499934
• ISBN-10: 1108499937
• Artikelnr.: 58343241

Autorenporträt

Margherita Zanasi is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Louisiana State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The political and intellectual framework: the Minsheng mandate and China's economy of scarcity
2. Efficient markets and productive consumption (1500-1800)
3. Scarcity revisited: population growth, frugality, and self-strengthening (1800-1911)
4. Nation-building, strategic markets, and frugal modernity: the early decades of the Republic of China (1912-1930s)
Conclusion.