Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Wang Fang
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication date:
June 2019
Abstract:
This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han’s political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Political Economy of the Han: Introduction, Terry Peach
Chapter 2: From Contention to Unification: Transformation of Economic Thought in the Han Dynasty and its Heritage, Cheng Lin and Zhang Shen;
Chapter 3: Dong Zhongshu and Confucian Economic Thought as State Ideology in the Western Han Dynasty, Zhong Xiangcai;
Chapter 4: The Monetary and Fiscal System of the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties, Ma Tao and Li Wei
Chapter 5: Monetary Thought in the Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period (220 BCE-280 CE), Gavin S.H. Chiu and S.C. Kwan
Chapter 6: The System of Tribute Equalisation in the Han, Li Chaomin
Chapter 7: War Economy in the Western Han Dynasty, Elisa Levi Sabattini
Chapter 8: The ‘Land Quota’ System in the Han Dynasty and its Historical Influence, Wang Fang
Chapter 9: A Western Perspective on the Yantie lun, Bertram Schefold
Chapter 10: Sima Qian and Laissez Faire: Satire on a ‘Discordant and Degenerate Age’, Terry Peach