The pattern of the Chinese past
A social and economic interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20021430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Elvin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Pages | 346 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The pattern of the Chinese past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| OpenAlex | W565486356 |
| Open Library | OL22585807M |
| ISBN | 9780804708265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 236 |
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
Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Economics · Economy · Empire · Geography · Industrial Revolution · Interpretation (philosophy) · Isolation (microbiology) · Linguistics · Pace · Political science · Population · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Chinese history and philosophy · Demography · History · Law · Philosophy · Chine · Condiciones económicas · Economic conditions · Economicconditions · Economische aspecten
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The Evolution of War
Synthezing Secular, Demographic-Structural, Climate and Leadership Long Cycles
China’s economic development history and Xi Jinping’s “China dream
Components and process in social science explanation
Max Weber and patterns of Chinese history
The Needham puzzle, the Weber question, and China's miracle
China's economic development and cultural renaissance in the multipolar growth world of the twenty-first century
Human capital or humane talent? Rethinking the nature of education in China from a comparative historical perspective
Political Structure, Status Mobility, and Economic Growth in Imperial and Modern China
Uses and Misuses of a Chinese Renaissance
The gyroscope-like economy
Revisioning modernity
Marxism and the politics of positioning China in world history
Anarchy in the East
Ancientempires, Modernstates, and Thestudy Ofgovernment
East Asian Developmental Path and Land-Use Rights in China
Chase-Dunn’s Scholarship on Cities and Urbanization
Periodizing the Thought of Andre Gunder Frank
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity
Cultural Transformation, Art, and Collective Action in Polity Building
States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West
A. G. Frank and the Greatness of the East
Hemispheric Integration, 500-1500 C.E
Sustainability and ecological colonialism in Edo period Japan
The environmental history of China
Evaluating the effectiveness of agricultural adaptation to climate change in preindustrial society
Coping with ‘Natural’ Disasters in Pre-industrial Societies
Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia
Energy, growth, and evolution
Why Europe and the West? Why Not China
Individualism, Holism, and the Market Mentality
Luddism and Labor Protest Among Silk Artisans and Workers in Jiangnan and Guangdong, 1860-1930
China and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis
A Jiangnan Identity in North China
Socialist Legality and Legal Culture in Shanghai
The soup of the scholar
Cultural Orthodoxy, Risk, and Innovation
The Rise of the West-or Not? A Revision to Socio-economic History
Gender, Work, and Culture
Eccentricity and Indulgence in Autocratic Rulers
L'exploitation agricole chinoise de l'antiquité au XIVe siècle
La production textile dans la Chine traditionnelle
Logiques de marché dans la Chine maritime
World-System Theory
The West and the Rest Revisited
Coercion, Cognition, and Production
The uniqueness of the East
African peasantries
Inequality, land reform and agricultural growth in China, 1952-55
A history of money in Asian perspective
India and China
Population, technology and fragmentation
On the historical origins of Chinese underdevelopment
Epidemics in Ming and Qing China
Early Modernities and Contentious Politics in Mid-Qing China, c. 1740–1839
Putting Modernity in its Place(s)
Economic history at the species level
Culture, Clocks, and Comparative Costs David Landes on the Wealth of the West and the Poverty of the Rest
Should we really ReOrient
The Study of Contrasts across Europe
Eurasian Historical Comparisons
Malthusian Models and Chinese Realities
The Analysis of Chinese Rural Society
For Better, For Worse
The Development of Underdevelopment in China
The Commune in Chinese Development
The Development of Underdevelopment in China
The Provincial Elite in Shantung During the Republican Period
Socioeconomic Life in Rural Taiwan
The World Turned Downside Up
Economic Growth, Peasant Marginalization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in Early Twentieth-Century China
Coins, Trade, and the State
Extensive Sherd Scatters and Land Use Intensity
The Evolution of Complexity in the Valley of Oaxaca
Human Mobility in Roman Italy, I
Socio-economic Impacts on Flooding
The shape of the world system in the thirteenth century
The question of peasant revolts in traditional empires
Colonialism and the Rise of Capitalism
Between Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism
Citizenship and State-Sponsored Physical Education
The Phases of European History and the Nonexistence of the Middle Ages
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Chinese agriculture
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| Unique citing works | 236 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,54 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2022 (49) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 131 |