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Title: | The state in Chinese economic history | Authors: | Qian, Jiwei Sng, Tuan-Hwee |
Keywords: | institutions and growth state capacity |
Issue Date: | 20-Sep-2021 | Publisher: | WILEY | Citation: | Qian, Jiwei, Sng, Tuan-Hwee (2021-09-20). The state in Chinese economic history. AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW 61 (3) : 359-395. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12226 | Abstract: | We survey the recent economics and history literature on the Chinese state to investigate its role in China's long-term socioeconomic development. We highlight three insights. First, unlike in Europe, where interstate competition helped give rise to capitalist states with high capacity, the Chinese state emerged from a different historical context. Second, the 18th- and 19th-century Chinese state does not fit into the mould of a strong and extractive Oriental despotic state as once commonly believed. By conventional measures, early modern China had a weak state. Third, state building and centre-local relations are two useful dimensions to understand development and change in China's recent history and political economy. To adapt China to a changing world, Chinese state builders embarked on a long process of state building from the late-19th century through the Republican and Communist eras. Facilitated partly by regional decentralisation, the process now sees the Chinese state playing a substantially larger role in the economy and everyday life than any previous time in history. | Source Title: | AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/215458 | ISSN: | 0004-8992 1467-8446 |
DOI: | 10.1111/aehr.12226 |
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