The imperial mode of China : an analytical reconstruction of Chinese economic history / Goerge Hong Jiang.
Jiang, George Hong, author.
2023
HC427
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Title The imperial mode of China : an analytical reconstruction of Chinese economic history / Goerge Hong Jiang.
Author Jiang, George Hong, author.
ISBN 3031270150 (electronic bk.)
9783031270154 (electronic bk.)
9783031270147
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27015-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxix, 332 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-27015-4 doi
Call Number HC427
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.951
Summary Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the imperial mode of China. The book aims to innovatively apply a cohesive historical materialist framework to the economic evolution of China, while at the same time offering micro-analysis of Chinas institutions throughout its history. Taking a long-run perspective, from ancient China up until the present, the book aims to show how Chinese economic history can be viewed as a dynamic evolutionary process consisting of various stages. The first part of the book lays out the imperial mode as a mode of production based on Chinas agricultural economy, with a structure consisting of a central authority, the bureaucratic system, and the peasantry. The second part then chronologically examines the different dynasties through this analytical lens and suggests ways in which Chinas resistance to institutional changes in the early modern period has had long-lasting consequences for its economic development. The book goes on to show how the imperial mode is able to facilitate the agricultural economy, but did not foster the modern commercial and industrial economy. It integrates modern China into the long wave of economic history, showing how this imperial mode still exerts influence on Chinas current path of development, as well as introducing a new way of understanding communist China from a historical perspective. This book will have interdisciplinary appeal for researchers and students of economic history, economic development, the history of China, economic sociology, and social history more broadly. George Hong Jiang is an assistant researcher in the School of Economics at Peking University and also a visiting researcher in the Max Weber Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg Universitt. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He got a doctoral degree in macroeconomics at the Department of Economic Policy and Quantitative Methods, J. W. Goethe Universitt Frankfurt.
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Series Palgrave studies in economic history.
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Intro
Foreword by Bertram Schefold
Foreword by Werner Plumpe
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Major Periods in China
Chronology of Key People in Chinese History
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1 A Marxian Approach: Historical Materialism
2 A Weberian Approach: Historical-Comparative Sociology
3 Institutionalist Approaches
4 A Framework: The Imperial Mode of China
References
2 The Empire-Building in the Pre-Qin Era
1 The Natural Conditions in the Central Plain
2 The Primordial Economy and Social Structure

3 The First Economic Revolution
4 The Empire-Building and Legalist Thinkers' Reforms
5 Summary
References
3 Thought Matters
1 The Background of the Intellectual Boom
2 Confucianism
3 Daoism
4 Legalism
5 Summary
References
4 The First Phase: The Han Variant
1 The Short-Lived Dominance of Qin
2 The Political Structure in the Han Dynasty
3 From the Peasant Economy to the Manorial Economy
4 Imperial Confucianism: Official Ideology
5 The Rise and Decline of Aristocracy
6 The Revival of the Peasant Economy
7 Cultural Trends During Political Chaos

8 Summary
References
5 The Second Phase: The Song Variant
1 Strengthening Control Over Bureaucracy
2 The Second Economic Revolution
3 Neo-Confucianism: Ideological Maturity
4 The Role of Mongolians' Reign
5 The Zenith of Authoritarian Monarchy
6 Static Economic Development
7 Ideological Ossification
8 Summary
References
6 A Historical Pattern: The Imperial Mode
1 The Peasant Economy
2 The Bureaucratic System
3 The Central Authority
4 The Equilibrium
5 Summary
References
7 The Great Divergence I: The West

1 "The First Modern Economy": The Netherlands
2 The Constitutional Path of Great Britain
3 Inclusive Institutions
4 The Behavioural Revolution
5 The Enlightenment Movement and Scientific Revolution
6 Summary
References
8 The Great Divergence II: China
1 Traditional Interpretations
2 Revisionist Explanations
3 State Capacity
4 Inadaptability of the Imperial Mode
5 Summary
References
9 Pursuing Modernisation in China
1 The Collapse of the Imperial Mode in Late Qing
2 Nation-Building Efforts in the Republic of China

3 Disintegration of the Imperial Mode
4 Maoist Socialism: A Mixture of the Planned Economy and the Imperial Mode
5 A Consideration on the Socialist Planned Economy
Economic Reforms Out of a Planned Economy
6 "Oriental Capitalism" in Contemporary China
References
10 To Understand China: Past and Future
1 The Historical Trajectory of China
2 Path Dependence and Present China
3 Ordoliberalism and Future China
References
Index

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