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Classical Chinese Economics |
Socialistic Policies of Ancient China [1]: The Tsing Tien System (I): History |
By Chen Huan-Chang (陈焕章) 2017-09-01
The tsing tien system is the most important element in Chinese economic thought and history. According to a few modern scholars, this system was never in actual operation, but only a theory of Confucians. It is true that in ancient times, the tsing tien system could not have been as perfect as the Confucians taught; but it is also true that this system had been partly realized before the time of Confucius. |
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Socialism in Ancient China: Report on a seminar |
By Xinfajia 2017-08-01
China's politico-economic system in remote antiquity was characterized by, among other factors, effective institutions ensuring state ownership of land and of natural resources, the former in the form of the "nine squares" land system. Socialist theories and practices in ancient China was the result of natural social evolution from the genes and tradition of public ownership-based economy and moral virtue-guided politics typical of Chinese civilization. |
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Guanzi(《管子》): Earliest Masterpiece on Political Economy in Human History (I) |
By Li Xuejun (李学俊) 2012-10-03
...as early as over two millennia ago, when China already had a mature market economy with a three thousand years long history of development, she had given birth to the earliest great political economist, Guan Zhong (管仲), and the earliest masterpiece on political economy, Guanzi... |
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The Regulation of Wants: Moral Control |
By Chen Huan Chang 2010-01-31
This is an excerpt from the book "The Economic Principles of Confucius and his School" written by a Chinese scholar when attending Columbia University a century ago ...
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