New perspectives on China's late imperial period : why China slept
由
Leung, Patrick (Lecturer in economics and finance), author.
題名
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New perspectives on China's late imperial period : why China slept
作者
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Leung, Patrick (Lecturer in economics and finance), author.
ISBN(國際標準書號)
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9781433168468
主要作者
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Leung, Patrick (Lecturer in economics and finance), author.
稽核項
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xxvi, 426 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
內容
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When did China fall behind? -- Differences between the beliefs and value systems of the West and China -- What closed door policy? -- Almost everybody disliked merchants -- Free markets without capitalism? -- Why is the Chinese population so large? -- Literacy rates of Ming and Ging China -- Why hadn't the Chinese discovered the New World and Australia? -- What happened to Chinese firearms? -- Why China had no scientific and industrial revolution? -- Rule of law, rule of man and rule by law -- Ruling class democracy versus rule by Mandarins -- China's long sleep : imperial overstretch and its consequences -- What if Europeans had not come to China in the early modern period? -- Implications for China's resurgence.
摘要
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"The Foreword provides an explanation of the rationale for New Perspectives on China's Late Imperial Period: Why China Slept and gives an overview of the book's structure and a brief summary of each chapter. The book finds inspiration from George Orwell's astute observation: 'Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.' Since the West is the victor in the past two centuries, it controls the dominant and mainstream narrative of past history, including the history of China's Ming and Qing era. Why China Slept attempts to perceive China's past from a different perspective, in part by drawing upon the viewpoints of a number of non-conventional scholars from both the West and East, and considers its implications for the future. The book endeavors to re-examine all the conventional reasons given for China's stagnation and decline in the late imperial period in order to come up with a new framework for understanding China's rapid recovery in recent decades"-- Provided by publisher.
主題詞彙
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East and West.
地名標題
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China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
China -- Economic conditions -- 1644-1912.
China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912.
China -- Social conditions -- 1644-1912.
網址連結
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體裁
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Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
書目索引附錄等註
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Includes bibliographical references.
登入號(微縮資料號)
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npmlib 10903032 DS753 L46 ysh
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故宮圖書館 | DS753 L46 2020 | 10903032 | 1 | *圖書 | *二館西文書一區 |