University of Groningen
China’s Road in the Great Divergence Ni, Yuping
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10.33612/diss.135977937
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Ni, Y. (2020). China’s Road in the Great Divergence: Qing’s Model of Economic Development in the 1644-1911 Era. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.135977937
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Propositions
Belonging to: China’s Road in the Great Divergence: Qing’s Model of Economic
Development in the 1644-1911 Era
by Yuping Ni to defend on October 1, 2020
1. Qing China was still in a demographic regime described by Thomas Malthus, and clearly had not experienced a “Malthusian Miracle” (this thesis).
2. China's total economy is large, but the value of domestic trade is larger than that of foreign trade, lacking a stimulating trade policy (this thesis).
3. In the late Qing, China was in the process of changing from a traditional agricultural society that depended on a mainly land-based system of taxation to a modern commercially-based society with a complementary fiscal system (this thesis).
4. Traditional Qing China still followed the rule of the “natural economy” and that nobody had the power to challenge the rule of nature (this thesis).
5.Further convincing research, especially scholars who want to make a comparison between China and the West, may have to focus on more specific topics rather than specific areas, such as prices, wages, living standards, fertility, education and other aspects (this thesis). 6. China, much like a kaleidoscope barrel, will show you different colours as it is observed from different angles (this thesis).
7. China did not stagnate economically until the nineteenth century, and even then not all parts of the empire were unable to grow (Bin Wong).
8. There is no unique or definite method to do historical research (by Chinese economic historian Wu Chengming).史无定法——吴承明。
