China Transformed : : Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience / / R. Bin Wong.
"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China. It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."—Timothy Brook, Stanford University"This is a most extraordinary...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: Beyond European Models of Historical Change
- One Thousand Years of Chinese History and Western Social Theory
- A Disclaimer and a Defense
- Part I. Economic History and the Problem of Development
- 1. Economic Change in Late Imperial China and Early Modern Europe
- 2. Dynamics of Industrial Expansion in Early Modern Europe and Late Imperial China
- 3. Making Modern Economies
- Part II. State Formation and Transformation in Eurasia
- 4. Chinese and European Perspectives on State Formation and Transformation
- 5. Constructing Domestic Order
- 6. Political Economies in Europe and China
- 7. The Chinese State after 1850
- 8. China after 1949
- Part III. Politics, Protest, and Social Change
- 9. Grain Seizures and Political Economy
- 10. State Making, Fiscal Negotiations, and Tax Resistance
- 11. Revolutions
- 12. Comparative History and Social Theory
- REFERENCES
- INDEX