title: From Western Knowledge to a National Textbook: The Evolution of Li Quanshi’s Socio-economic Views
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metadata.value: Borokh, Olga N.
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:28:51Z
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:28:51Z
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metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Borokh O.N. From Western Knowledge to a National Textbook: The Evolution of Li Quanshi’s Socio-economic Views. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 426–451.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.308
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/20023
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metadata.value: The article analyzes the scholarly legacy of Li Quanshi as part of the history of intellectual
  interactions between China and the West in the Republican Period. Having been educated in
  the United States, in the early 1920s Li Quanshi used Western economic theories to develop a
  model of administrative and fiscal decentralization in China. He denounced “the communism
  of revenue” between different levels of government in China, pointed to the failure of a despotic centralized bureaucracy, and called to transfer financial authority to the level of provincial
  assemblies. Later, Li Quanshi’s views evolved from liberalism to the support of government
  intervention in the economy. Numerous publications by Li Quanshi impacted the process of the formation of Chinese economics in the Republican Period. He proposed to produce a
  “national textbook” in economics that took into account the Chinese realities. Li Quanshi set
  the goal of moving from copying and rendering foreign books to creating China’s own internationally competitive academic writings. The scholar relied upon the division of economics, widely accepted in the West, into production, distribution, exchange, and consumption,
  but its application to traditional Chinese material generated new results. In the first history
  of Chinese economic thought written in the Chinese language Li Quanshi interpreted and
  structured traditional heritage using Western concepts. His determination to introduce Chinese characteristics into economic research has stimulated increased attention to the issues of
  consumption and the role of the state in the economy. It is concluded that Li Quanshi’s ideas
  of the 1920s and 1930s have regained relevance in the context of the current official policy of
  support to “social sciences with Chinese characteristics”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Republican China
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: financial system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: E.R.A. Seligman
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: national textbook
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: consumption
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient Chinese thought
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From Western Knowledge to a National Textbook: The Evolution of Li Quanshi’s Socio-economic Views
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metadata.value: Article
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