"This book is the first Western monograph on Shanxi piaohao - private financiers from the Chinese hinterland - in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at...

1. Introduction : changes in modern China and their causes -- 2. The Qing state and its success -- 3. The withering state and its consequences -- 4. Empire-wide unrest and failures in state-building, 1850-1870 -- 5. State revitalisation and federalism, 1850-1911 -- 6. Musical chairs for more...

This book is unique in its depth of perspective. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. It concludes that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world’s largest economy by the year...

This book provides the most detailed and complete picture of workers' protest in China to date. It locates their position within the context of Chinese political history and the role played by Chinese workers in radical political movements

China's remarkable growth in recent years has been often rather arbitrarily ascribed to a number of politico-economic factors. In this volume, the specific effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows is measured quantitatively and estimated on a regional basis. The authors find that there...