Institutions and institutional change in China : premodernity and modernization / Fei-Ling Wang
- Bib ID:
- 557822
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wang, Fei-Ling
- Description:
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998
- xviii, 227 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0312213603 (cloth)
- Series:
- International political economy series.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Institutions, Institutional Changes, and Modernization: A Conceptual Framework. I. Modernization: The Arguments. II. Human Needs, Behaviors and Institutions. III. An Institutional Understanding of Modernity and Modernization. IV. Timing and Other Remaining Methodological Issues. V. Summary
- 2. The Indicators: A Theory on Labor Allocation Patterns. I. Labor Allocation Patterns: The Notion. II. The Historical Types of LAP. III. Summary
- 3. A Historical Review of the Chinese Domestic Organizational Structure: A Peculiar Premodernity. I. Labor Allocation in China: From Qin to Qing (Third Century BC-Nineteenth Century AD). II. The Era of Changes (1840-1949). III. "Leaping Forward" to the Past (1949-78). IV. The Chinese Premodernity: Messages from the Reading of History. V. Summary
- 4. Institutional Reconfiguration: Labor Allocation Patterns and Chinese Modernization. I. To Observe Chinese Modernization: Assertions and Hypotheses.
- II. Mixed LAPs in the 1990s: Institutional Continuities and Changes. III. Summary
- 5. Conclusion: The Dragon Enters the Nets. I. Institutions and Institutional Changes: To Understand Modernization. II. To Emerge from Premodernity: China and the Chinese Modernization. III. The Dragon in the Nets: An Epilogue
- App. A Methodological Discussion on Chinese Statistical Data.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-222) and index.
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