The Development of Underdevelopment in China

An Afterword

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ID6008022
AuthorsVictor D Lippit (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume6
Issue1
Pages86-93
Publication date1980-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/009770048000600104
OpenAlexW2015597026
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

When I submitted my article on The Development of Underdevelopment in to Modern I welcomed its use as the basis for a symposium, for I believed the historical and theoretical issues involved to be of such importance and complexity that only the clash of contending perspectives could serve to reveal them fully. For the most part, I believe that the symposium which resulted (Modern Vol. 4 No. 3, July 1978) served this purpose well. It seems to me, however, that a number of important ambiguities remain to be cleared up, and it is to pursue this purpose that I would like to present this research note. In The Development of Underdevelopment in China, I argued that underdevelopment in nineteenthand twentiethcentury China could simply have meant not yet developed, because historically, in the Song period (960-1279) for example, China was incontestably the most advanced civilization in the world. Thus, modern underdevelopment could have emerged only as the result of a historical process, the development of underdevelopment. After an admittedly cursory look at some of the important changes between the Song and modern periods

China · Civilization · Clearance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Underdevelopment · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Medicine

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