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Price: £12.60
Pages: 127
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture
Publication Date:
06 January 2006
Trim Size: 8.48 X 6.72 in
ISBN: 9789622097841
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"This book offers valuable insights to both the historian and the economist seeking to understand the contrasting trajectories taken by China and the West. The comparison between the Western corporation governed by law and the Chinese family lineage gover
"In his usual strong and provocative style, David Faure provides fascinating new ideas on the reasons for China falling behind the West from the nineteenth century, and spans the 1949 divide with sharp observations on the historical origins of China's con
"Engagingly written by one of the most distinguished economic historians of China, China and Capitalism focuses on a central theme why was China underdeveloped, and what was the role of the corporate economy in this underdevelopment? The book is a double
"This small book is a tour de force. In remarkably brief compass, David Faure identifies and addresses key issues in Chinese business history between 1500 and the present. For China specialists, he sets a research agenda covering five centuries, and for b
"In his usual strong and provocative style, David Faure provides fascinating new ideas on the reasons for China falling behind the West from the nineteenth century, and spans the 1949 divide with sharp observations on the historical origins of China's con
"Engagingly written by one of the most distinguished economic historians of China, China and Capitalism focuses on a central theme why was China underdeveloped, and what was the role of the corporate economy in this underdevelopment? The book is a double
"This small book is a tour de force. In remarkably brief compass, David Faure identifies and addresses key issues in Chinese business history between 1500 and the present. For China specialists, he sets a research agenda covering five centuries, and for b
David Faure is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford; and currently Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.