ABSTRACT

First Published in 2005. The following pages provide an extensive introduction to the study of the Economic History of China, together with a carefully selected bibliography of some 800 books and articles. The text is intended to define, in the first place, the nature and importance of the subject, and to furnish a general guide to its further exploration in future.

chapter I|5 pages

Preface: The Problems and the Danger

chapter III|6 pages

The Deep Roots of Chinese Marxism

chapter IV|9 pages

The Foundations of Chinese History

chapter VI|10 pages

The First Dynasties

chapter VII|7 pages

The Age of Confucius and the Classics

chapter IX|12 pages

The Great Han Empire

chapter X|10 pages

China and Asia in the Middle Ages

chapter XI|9 pages

The Meaning of the ‘Middle Ages'

chapter XIII|8 pages

Northern and Southern Dynasties

chapter XIV|8 pages

Basic Problems of T'ang Society

chapter XV|8 pages

The Great T'ang Empire

chapter XVIII|12 pages

Antecedents of the Modern Period

chapter XIX|18 pages

The Manchus and the Moderns