Ho-fung Hung (The Johns Hopkins University)

The China Boom

Why China Will Not Rule the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A systematic investigation into the origins and unraveling of China's economic miracle.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Asia in the World
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780231164191
• ISBN-10: 023116419X
• Artikelnr.: 47217494

Autorenporträt

Ho-fung Hung is Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Associate Professor in Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the award-winning book Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (Columbia, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Chronology of State Making and Capitalist Development in China, Sixteenth
to Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction: Sinomania and Capitalism
Part I. Origins
1. A Market Without Capitalism, 1650–1850
2. Primitive Accumulation, 1850–1980
3. The Capitalist Boom, 1980–2008
Part II. Global Effects, Coming Demise
4. Rise of the Rest
5. A Post-American World?
6. Global Crisis
Conclusion: After the Boom
Notes
References
Index

Rezensionen

"So many books on China recycle the same stories and historical anecdotes, but this one tells the story from the point of view of economic history. It is scholarly yet readable, interesting throughout." Marginal Revolution