title: Nankai school: The experience of adapting economics to Chinese conditions in the 1920s–1930s
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metadata.value: Borokh, Olga N.
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metadata.value: 2024-03-27T18:21:19Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Borokh, O. N. (2024) ‘Nankai school: The experience of adapting economics to Chinese conditions in the 1920s–1930s’, St. Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 40 (1), pp. 127– 152. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu05.2024.106 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu05.2024.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45150
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metadata.value: Using the example of the activities of the Nankai Institute of Economics in the second quarter
  of the twentieth century, the article analyses the problem of adapting Western economic theories
  to the study of the Chinese economy. At the heart of the program of sinicization of economic
  research and education proposed by the Nankai school was the work of collecting and
  systematising reliable information on the Chinese economy. In the second half of the 1920s,
  Nankai University became a leader in China in conducting socio-economic surveys, compiling
  index numbers of prices, studying selected industries and rural regions. The founders of the Nankai school. He Lian and Fang Xianting were educated in economics in the United
  States; up until the late 1940s, the Nankai Institute of Economics was highly dependent on
  American grant support. This did not prevent them from setting the objectives of “knowing
  China” and “serving China” by combining foreign theories and methods with an understanding
  of the real economic situation based on reliable quantitative data. The task of “localization”
  of economics stimulated writing of pioneering university textbooks that explained general
  theoretical concepts through Chinese examples. Focus on solving China’s problems led
  the economists to abandon copying ready-made foreign prescriptions. During the two decades
  of activity in the Republican period the Nankai school made major achievements in collecting
  factual material on Chinese economy and adapting courses, its legacy has become an
  important starting point of the contemporary policy of sinicization of economics in the PRC.
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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.value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 40; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Republican China
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: He Lian
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metadata.value: Fang Xianting
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metadata.value: Nankai Institute of Economics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economic education
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metadata.value: empirical studies
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metadata.value: socio-economic surveys
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metadata.value: economics textbooks
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Nankai school: The experience of adapting economics to Chinese conditions in the 1920s–1930s
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