Authors

Jinsheng Zhou

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

Rights

Copyright 1974 the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

An Economic History of China

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