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The eight empirical studies presented in this volume illustrate the complex relationship of institutional change and higher efficiency economic performance within the historical context of modern C...
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The eight empirical studies presented in this volume illustrate the complex relationship of institutional change and higher efficiency economic performance within the historical context of modern China. Together they suggest what an institutional approach can offer in assessing China's long-term economic development. These studies also suggest how the discourse on institution and performance can be informed by specific case studies on China.
 
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Pages: 284
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290991
Format: Paperback
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Billy Kee-long So 蘇基朗 is currently head and chair professor of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include Chinese legal history and culture, Chinese business history and culture, and the institutional economic history of late Qing and Republican China.
Education: B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong; M.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Ph.D., Australian National University

Ramon H. Myers was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His scholarship and public policy interests included Chinese economic history, Japanese imperialism, Taiwanese history, and Asian international relations. He is the author of The Chinese Peasant Economy (Harvard University Press, 1970), The Chinese Economy, Past and Present (Wadsworth Press, 1978), and co-editor of The Treaty Port Economy in Modern China (Institute of East Asian Studies, 2011). He passed away in fall 2015. 
Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington

Acknowledgements

Contributors

1. Modern China's Treaty Port Economy in Institutional Perspective: An Introductory Essay 
       Billy K.L. So

PART ONE: Institutional Change and Economic Growth

2. The rise of Modern Shanghai: 1900-1936: An Institutional Perspective 
       Debin Ma

3. The Shanghai Real Estate Market and Capital Investment, 1860-1936 
       Tomoko Shiroyama

4. The Rice and Wheat Flour Market Economies in the Lower Yangzi, 1900-1936 
       Kai-yiu Chan

5. The Regional Development of Wei County's Cotton Textile Market Economy. 1920-1937 
       Hon-ming Yip

6. Chinese Farmer Rationality and the Agrarian Economy of the Lower Yangzi in the 1930s 
       James Kai-sing Kung, Daniel Yiu-fai Lee, and Nansheng Bai

PART TWO: Dynamics in Institutional Change

7. Traditional Land Rights in Hong Kong's New Territories 
       Kentaro Matsubara

8. Chinese Enteprises across Cultures: The Hong Kong Business Experience in the Early Twentieth Century 
       Stephanie Po-yin Chung

9. Legalization of Chinese Corporation, 1904-1929; Innovation and Continuity in Rules and Legislation 
      Billy K.L. So and Albert S. Lee

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