Category: Economics
Take grain as the key link
Securing grain supplies and providing food security for the peasants was always one of the main duties of the Chinese state, partly because of their deep concer...
Was China stagnant for 700 years?
Brad DeLong has a long post up on the economic history of China. It’s not all that good, but as he is asking for comments people might want to go and give...
China's Traditional, right?
Cultural Revolution? Yan’an Purge? It’s an ugly campaign season, a mix of talent show, debate, old-fashioned politicking and dirty tricks. It’...
Who lives in a Pineapple under the Sea of Japan…?
From Inside Asia I learn that China has created regulations to increase the number of domestic cartoons shown in China. This is a fairly standard bit of cultura...
Has anyone seen the scissors?
Tang-dynasty scissors, via wikipedia Perhaps they are not as interesting as pigs, but I had a question about scissors. I was reading the 海王 chapter of Gu...
Electrons, the ultimate export
Preview of a documentary on gold-mining in China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 I hope my son never sees this post, which suggests that you really c...
Working like a slave
I have been to busy to post much of late, as I have been very busy. Not quite working like a slave however, as the slave contract below shows. I use this in cla...
A Guokui for the contemporary masses
I was checking through CDT the other day (as I do when I’m in the mood to circumvent certain walls that surround my current location) and came across the ...
Nourish the people with cheap diesel
In the post below Jonathan asked how a Confucian China could really be in the future. One possible bit of data comes from this article (From Brad DeLong). NYT r...
Mickey Mouse in China
There are some interesting articles in the current Modern China, and the one I would like to comment on at present is “Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northw...
ASPAC Notes: Demographics and States
Historian of Empires Niall Ferguson [via Ralph Luker] recently wrote: Since 1989, the Russian mortality rate has risen from below 11 per 1,000 to more than 15 p...