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Bezig met laden... The Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation (editie 1973)door Mark Elvin
Informatie over het werkThe Pattern of the Chinese Past door Mark Elvin All Things China (36) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I probably found this book in my searches on Google Books due to it's first sentence: "The question of the size of political units seems never to attract among historians and sociologists the attention which it deserves". However, this question does unfortunately not receive much attention in this book either, so my expectations were not quite met. The book does provide a few explanations for the exceptional durability of the large Chinese empire, but it's primarily just an economic history of China. The book is a pleasure to read and many of its points are nicely illustrated with quotations from historical Chinese sources. But as far as comparisons between China and Europe are concerned, I would recommend Pomeranz' The Great Divergence as a more recent work which I think covers similar ground from a slightly broader perspective. If Elvin's approach to the salients of China's historical experience is hopscotch, it is not haphazard. While the text itself is never difficult, you will feel lost if you don't already have a grasp of China's timeline. But Elvin's shrewd epitomes of the various dynasties make this book an invaluable companion to any more conventional history. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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