Taisu Zhang

The Laws and Economics of Confucianism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China's lagging development in preindustrial times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781316506288
• ISBN-10: 1316506282
• Artikelnr.: 56714195

Autorenporträt

Taisu Zhang is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Connecticut and works on comparative legal history - specifically, economic institutions in modern China and early modern Western Europe - comparative law, property law, and contemporary Chinese Law. This is his first book. In dissertation form, it was the recipient of Yale University's Arthur and Mary Wright Dissertation Prize and the American Society for Legal History's Kathryn T. Preyer Award. Zhang is a founding board member of the International Society for Chinese Law and History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Dian' sales in Qing and Republican China
2. Mortgages in early modern England
3. Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (theories)
4. Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (empirics)
5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history
6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism
Conclusion
Index.