The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought

Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Wang Fang

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317811787
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought. The contributions are preceded by an introduction which gives an overview of the development of the subject of history of economic thought in China, and which also provides an historical context to the individuals who constitute the major "schools" of ancient Chinese economic thought.

The authors of the papers are leading scholars who have dominated this research area since the founding of New China in 1949, while the broad range of topics covered by the contributions includes questions of methodology, detailed and sometimes controversial interpretations of texts and "schools", and the international influence and modern relevance of ancient Chinese thought. A recurrent theme is that ancient Chinese thought has at least as much to offer to the historian as ancient Western thought. As the first such volume of papers to be translated into English, this collection provides a unique opportunity for non-Chinese readers to sample the way in which Chinese historians of economics have attempted to understand their own intellectual heritage.

This book will be relevant to scholars interested in the history of economic thought, economic history and Chinese studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Analytical table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology
• Editorial note
• Introduction
• 1 Considerations on the research methodology of the history of Chinese economic thought
• 2 On the major fields and significance of the study of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought
• 3 Fu Guo Xue and the ‘economics’ of ancient China
• 4 The Chinese origin of Physiocratic economics
• 5 On Guanzi Qing Zhong
• 6 A comparison between Confucian and Daoist economic philosophies in the pre-Qin era
• 7 The start of family economics of Chinese feudal landowners on Jia Sixie’s Important Arts for People’s Welfare
• 8 Confucian thought on the free economy
• 9 Etymological studies of ‘Chinese economics’
• 10 The theory of division of labour in China history
• 11 Harmony of Diversity and Great Uniformity: two trains of thought in the economics of ancient China
• 12 The influence of ancient Chinese thought on the Ever-Normal Granary of Henry A. Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Act in the New Deal
• Index