{"id":284,"date":"2007-08-14T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/08\/was-china-stagnant-for-700-years\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:40:00","slug":"was-china-stagnant-for-700-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/08\/was-china-stagnant-for-700-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Was China stagnant for 700 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/\">Brad DeLong<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2007\/08\/slouching-towar.html\">a<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2007\/08\/slouching-towar.html\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2007\/08\/slouching-towar.html\">long post<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2007\/08\/slouching-towar.html\"> <\/a>up on the economic history of China. It&#8217;s not all that good, but as he is asking for comments people might want to go and give some. Can anyone think of a good passage by someone more current on the literature that covers the Late Imperial period better?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE<\/p>\n<p>Actually the post and the comments (on the main page) are a treasure trove of the type of zombie errors that crop up in my classes all the time. &#8220;Confucianism&#8221; retarded trade. The Chinese economy was stagnant after the Song. The Chinese had a printing press but never printed many books. If you want a nice picture of the general state of knowledge of Chinese history among those who are smart and well-informed but don&#8217;t know much about China, this is the place to go.<\/p>\n<p>(I sometimes ask students what they know about China on the first day of class but I never formalize it into essays, since a long boring assignment that makes them feel stupid does not strike me as a good way to start off class. Now if I just assume that my incoming freshmen know about as much about China as Brad Delong (and his commentors) my questions about their knowledge-base are answered.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad DeLong has a long post up on the economic history of China. It&#8217;s not all that good, but as he is asking for comments people might want to go and give some. Can anyone think of a good passage by someone more current on the literature that covers the Late Imperial period better? UPDATE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,165,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-carnivals","category-china","category-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-4A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}