TY - GEN N2 - This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective. DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-6573-9 DO - doi AB - This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective. T1 - Adam Smith and Yan Fu :western economics in Chinese perspective / AU - Lai, Cheng-chung, CN - HC427.5 LA - eng ID - 1451569 SN - 9789811965739 SN - 9811965730 TI - Adam Smith and Yan Fu :western economics in Chinese perspective / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-6573-9 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-6573-9 ER -