Volume and Number
Occasional Paper No. 7
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Publication Date
1974
Managing Editor
Edward H. Kaplan
Publisher
Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
City
Bellingham, Washington
Description
An Economic History of China by Chou Chin-sheng: Subjective idealism, whether Chinese or European, boils down to spiritualism. Pre-Marxist materialism boils down to the reduction of man to a thing, as it fails to recognize that not only does the natural environment (sunspots, China as a continental rather than a seacoast-dominated geographic entity) act on man, but that man reacts on his environment too. The same is true of the school of social or economic materialism founded by Marx. At best, materialism provides the objective element in history; the spiritual element must remain history's motive force. In earliest times the material forces predominated in man's history, but the trend has been for the immaterial forces to grow in strength with time until now they can (as in the accomplishments of modern science) reshape the material forces themselves. Only the historical viewpoint of Sun Yat-sen's "People's Livelihood" adequately synthesizes the strong points of spiritualism and both varieties of materialism, making them inseparable facets of itself, the center of human history. It sees human progress as a spiritual process, but one inextricably linked to continuous improvement in material production.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/f49d-h065
Publisher (Digital Object)
Resources made available by the Special Collections, Heritage Resources, and Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Type
Text
OCLC Number
1055150
Geographic Coverage
China--Economic conditions--To 1644; China--Economic conditions--1644-1912
Disciplines
Asian History
Keywords
Pre-Marxist China, Economic history in China
Document Type
Book
Recommended Citation
Zhou, Jinsheng, "An Economic History of China" (1974). East Asian Studies Press. 20.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/20
Rights
Copyright 1974 the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Language
English
Format
application/pdf