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Adam Smith and Yan Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective
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| Verlag: | Springer |
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| Veröffentl.: | 30.11.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9789811965739 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective.
<p>Overview.- Spread of The Wealth of Nations.- Reception of The Wealth of Nations.- Traduttore Traditore.- Yan Fu’s understanding of The Wealth of Nations.- Yan Fu’s Economic Ideas.- Epilogue.</p><br>
Cheng-chung Lai is Emeritus Professor at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), with three decades of experience in teaching economic history and history of economics thought. His books in English include: Adam Smith across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Oxford University Press (2000); Braudel’s Historiography Reconsidered (2004). He was educated in Taiwan (BA) and Belgium (MA), received his doctorate from École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.<div><br></div><div><br></div>
This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective.<p></p>
Examines the influence of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations on Yan Fu's economic ideology Highlights the reception of The Wealth of Nations in the Chinese context Provides a Chinese perspective on Western economic philosophies
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