...William J. Barber 2010 . By Paul B. Trescott. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. xxiv; 442 pp. $55.00. Book Reviews Jingji Xue: The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas into China, 1850–1950. By Paul B. Trescott. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press...

...Paul B. Trescott The central ideas of Keynes's General Theory were introduced into China soon after its publication in 1936. Yao Qingsan, who had studied in France, made the first known presentation. Numerous persons who had studied in England helped disseminate Keynes's ideas: Michael Lindsay, Fan...

...Hsiang-Ke Chao Abstract The history of the transmission of Western knowledge to China—Western Learning or Xixue —usually revolves around travelers. What is unmentioned, however, is that the identity of the two types of Chinese travelers of economic knowledge evolved throughout the Western Learning...

...Mauro Boianovsky; Gerardo Serra Abstract Joan Robinson's infatuation with Mao's China remains the most controversial episode of the Cambridge economist's life. Drawing on the literatures on observation in science and economics, and economists' travels, we aim to overcome the dichotomy between...

.... Making It Count moves through three parts. In part 1, Ghosh explores the early history of PRC statistics and how they compared to previous Chinese state statistics. Although China had ambitious plans for a national statistical system by the late 1940s, the reality was much more modest and characterized...

... for the broad and diverse social movements of 1989, which demanded not only democratic rights but also an end to corruption” (255). In the penultimate chapter, Weber describes the conditions that led China to initiate and then retreat from radical price decontrol in 1988. Deng Xiaoping was the decisive...

... N.D. Looking backward . Garden City, NY. (Orig. 1888 .) Bennett , Adrian Arthur 1967 . John Fryer: the introduction of Western science and technology into nineteenth century China . Cambridge, MA. Bernal , Martin 1976 . Chinese socialism to 1907 . Ithaca. Biggerstaff...

..., although stopped short by Stalin (Belykh, 266). The chapter on China, focused on the development of mathematical economics after 1980, is somewhat at odds with the rest of the book, especially in its multiple claims that “the application of these quantitative models solved many problems of China's economy...

...Luis Perdices de Blas; José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza Abstract This article analyzes the socioeconomic image of China developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Spanish travelers and historians, differentiating between the idealized “Iberian view” and the more nuanced and critical Jesuit...

...Zengping He Abstract Chartalism is an influential and continuous tradition of monetary thought in ancient China. It dates back to the earliest Chinese text on monetary thought and continued into the Qing Dynasty. A vast body of related literature can be found across ancient Chinese dynasties...

...Hsiang-Ke Chao; Hsiao-ting Lin Abstract This article examines Lauchlin Currie's land tax policy suggestion during wartime China and its political economy. Our study, based on unpublished archival materials, aims to clarify the reasons for and outcomes of Currie's first visit to China in 1942...

...Yue Xiao Current literature on John Stuart Mill’s writings about Asia have focused mainly on his relationship with India because of Mill’s thirty-five-year career in the East India Company. Scholars in both China and the West have not paid attention to Mill’s views on China. This paper delves...

... mandate. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, Sun proposed the creation of an “International Development Organization” that could channel foreign capital to China in a manner that better respected the will of the Chinese people than private financiers had done. He also advanced arguments about why...

... elucidate Friedman's views on the use of pegged exchange rates during stabilization programs (Chile and Israel) and on exchange rates in socialist countries (China and Yugoslavia). [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 exchange rates crawling peg...

...-Communist China . Chicago: Aldine. Chao, Kang. 1977 . The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Chiang, Yung-chen. 1986 . Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1898-1949. Ph.D. diss. , Harvard University. Day, Clive. 1933...

... valuable. China was not ready for Smith when he was first introduced to it. This is why the first translation had a limited impact in terms of policy and in terms of economic understanding. It gained some traction with Marxism, since Smith was seen as a foundation for Marx. Part of the beauty...

... hsuan chi: 1840–1864 (Selected works on modern economic thought and economic policies of China: 1840–1864) . Ko Shueh Chu Bang She. Beijing. Yu-lan , Fung 1952–53 . A history of Chinese philosophy , 2 vols . Princeton, N.J. Giles , L. 1912 . Taoist teaching from the Book of Leih Tzu...

...- nomic concepts, ideas, and intellectual efforts which address traditional China’s productive, distributive, and financial problems in chronological author-topic order. Some of these concepts and problems are remarkably similar to their European and American counterparts. These include laissez...

.... But if, in the Age of Approaching Peace, one were to continue to cling to (the institutions of the Age of) Disorder, this too would result in great harm. (From Kang's Commentary on the “Doctrine of the Mean” [1900], quoted in Fung [1934] 1953: 683; cf. Hsiao 1975 : 86) According to Kang, China's pressing...

... socialist countries as well as studies on Myrdal. His knowledge of both areas forms the basis of this book. The introductory chapter deals with transition problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and China. Although Angresano sometimes explicitly...