The laws and economics of Confucianism : kinship and property in pre-industrial China and England / Taisu Zhang.
2017
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The laws and economics of Confucianism : kinship and property in pre-industrial China and England / Taisu Zhang.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource.
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Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
Formatted Contents Note
Dian sales in Qing and Republican China
Mortgages in early modern England
Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (theories)
Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (empirics)
Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history
Property institutions and agricultural capitalism.
Mortgages in early modern England
Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (theories)
Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (empirics)
Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history
Property institutions and agricultural capitalism.
Summary
Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre-industrial economic development went down different paths. The dominance of Neo-Confucian social hierarchies in Late Imperial and Republican China, under which advanced age and generational seniority were the primary determinants of sociopolitical status, allowed many poor but senior individuals to possess status and political authority highly disproportionate to their wealth. In comparison, landed wealth was a fairly strict prerequisite for high status and authority in the far more 'individualist' society of early modern England, essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions of prestige and leadership. Zhang argues that this social difference had major consequences for property institutions and agricultural production.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 26, 2017).
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Print version: Zhang, Taisu. Laws and economics of Confucianism. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Language
English
ISBN
9781108524377 (electronic book)
1108524370 (electronic book)
9781316493328
1316493326
9781107141117 (hardback)
9781316506288 (paperback)
1108524370 (electronic book)
9781316493328
1316493326
9781107141117 (hardback)
9781316506288 (paperback)
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