The Pattern of the Chinese Pastepub,mobi,azw3格式电子书下载，作者：Mark Elvin-读书派

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.

【Review】

"A book which is without doubt the most lucid and stimulating introduction to the problems of the economic and social history of traditional China at present available. . . . There is so much that is new and stimulating in this book, and it is written with such a nice balance between argument and vivid quotation from primary sources. . . . A superb introduction to the distinctive patterns of Chinese history over the span of two millennia."

—E. Wilkinson

,The Economist

"Every now and then a book appears which by its evidence and boldness of argument redirects our thinking, making us re-examine old problems in unprecedented ways. Such were Marc Bloch's Les caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française and E.H. Norman's Japan's Emergence as a Modern State. I predict The Pattern of the Chinese Past will achieve similar fame in Chinese historical studies. It is a brilliant achievement. . . . Elvin's book will stand out as a landmark in Chinese social and economic studies."

—Ramon H. Myers

,The Journal of Asian Studies

"The work will attract attention both for its obvious merits—readability, attention to large and important problems, frequent brilliant historical insights—and because the author's interpretations at times 'depart considerably from the received consensus.'"

—Albert Feuerwerker

,The China Quarterly

马洲洋

09-04

实则我觉得高均衡陷阱这个理论没什么大问题，基本可以自圆其说。现代经济学家不应该以现代经济理论所基于的背景去置换前现代时期的社会生产状况。这一点Elvin在一开头说的已经很清楚了。且他整本书的90%都在论述中国历史从古到近具体的社会经济状态，不看他的这些，单从最后几页的模型去判断他的理论是否合理实在有些groundless。Elvin最大的问题不是模型的问题，而是他问题本身的问题，近些年，越来越多的学者开始意识到所谓的“李约瑟之问”本就是个不必问的问题。中国未能进行西欧式的工业化本不是一件奇怪的事。西欧工业化产生的条件不仅中国不具备，世界其余地区也都不具备。Elvin说的很对，只要西方在近代将中国纳入世界体系，一切问题即迎刃而解。从人类文明史上看，科学技术的发展本就不是一家永远独大的。

Ameng

02-11

14th turning point

追风筝的人

12-14

四十年前的书今天读来还是觉得耳目一新

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