The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth century.

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

石约翰（John E. Schrecker），师从汉学大师费正清，布兰代斯（Brandeis）大学历史系教授，同时在美国哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心从事研究工作。除本书外，尚著有Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung、Reform in nineteenth-century China（与Paul A. Cohen合编）等。

Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when to wage it, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese culture, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These debates at court proceeded from specific understandings of what const...(展开全部)

Yang Lien-sheng The first fulltime Chinese historian in the Department of Far Eastern Languages, Yang Lien-sheng 楊聯陞 (1914-1990) was born in Baoding, Hubei province. He received his undergraduate education at Qinghua University, where he studied economics and completed his thesis under the direction of the historian Chen Yinke. He then came to Harvard University and became on o...(展开全部)

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources. In six theoretical chapters, Profe...(展开全部)