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China's Early Industrialization. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 192
China’s early industrialization (1865-1895) is of
great importance to theories of economic
development. This book examines why China’s
industrialization was slow compared to contemporary
Japan’s. The author argues that China’s tardy
economic development was due to ineffective
government leadership. He further explores why the
Chinese government did not lead China’s economic
development effectively. The Manchu question—Manchu
rule of Qing China and Manchu supremacy over other
ethnic groups—triggered ethnic rebellions between
the early 1850s and the early 1870s, which severely
undercut the power of the government. Ethnic
rebellions in turn were caused by the government’s
unequal ethnic policies that had established an
ethnic hierarchy in the empire. Moreover, between
the 1860s and 1890s the government spent a
disproportionate amount of its revenue to
financially support the Manchus leading to
insufficient governmental investment in modern
projects. Sociologists, political economists, and
historians of China and Japan will find this book
informative.
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