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Pursuing Modernisation in China

In: The Imperial Mode of China

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  • George Hong Jiang

    (Heidelberg University
    Peking University)

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This chapter presents how China pursued modernisationmodernisation in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries after the Westthe West forcefully brought external shocks into the imperial system. Frequent warfare harmed efforts of the Qing government, and its weaknesses led to disintegration of the Imperial Mode in the 1910s. However, the Republic of Chinathe Republic of China failed to completely reform the imperial system although it tried to imitate western republicanismrepublicanism. The Chinese Communist Party respectively established a planned economyplanned economy and market economymarket economy after 1949. While all actors tried to pursue modernisation through introducing western elements, they had to act on the foundation of the Imperial Mode whose path dependencepath dependence forms the basic operational mechanism of Chinese society. Although certain components of the imperial system are demolished, similar mechanisms still prevail.

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  • George Hong Jiang, 2023. "Pursuing Modernisation in China," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Imperial Mode of China, chapter 0, pages 255-304, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-27015-4_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27015-4_9
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