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Qichao Economic Thought

Posted on:2002-04-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y C GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360095462646Subject:History of Economic Thought
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Liang Qichao is one of the most outstanding bourgeois propogandist, Many former literatures on Liang, mostly made some comments on the application of his political thoughts which had been rejected completely, touch very little on Liang's thoughts of other aspects except the high appraisal of Liang's devotion to culture. Because these literatures don not mean to focus on Liang's economic thought, Only some sketch on economic thought of Liang Qichao have been reviewed, which included the Recent History of China's Economic Thoughts If edited by Professor Zhao Jing and Yi Menghong (1980), History of China's Economic Thoughts If (Ye Shichang 1980), the Lucid History of China's Recent Economic Thoughts (Ye Shichang 1998), the History of China's Recent Economic ThowghteIII(Hou,Houji & Wu, Qijing 1984), the Syllabus of China's Recent Economic Thoughts History (Hu, Jichuang 1984),The Fogotten Corner in History- Rethinking of Liangs Thought of New Citizenship and Economics (Wu, Shenyuan 1999), After the study of the above mentioned works, I continue to read other literature on Liang Qichao's economic thoughts. It occured to me that there exist the need of concrete and systematic study on Liang. Due to the fact that a careful consideration of Hang's works can remind people of his economic viewpoint which can be used as a revelation to our modern society. I decide to choose the study of Liang Qichao's economic thoughts as my doctorate dissertation.Liang took an active participant in making light of bourgeois ideology, his introduction of occidental ideology ranged widely, and the influence is much greater than his contemporaries. From Wuxu Reform to Xinhai Revolution, Liang Qichao incessantly cried for the sake of the country and people. To realize the goal of enriching country and strengthening people, he put forward a series of political and economic proposals, not all these thoughts right, some even straight contrary to those of bourgeois revolutionist, others then lacked the foundation to be realized. However, his introduction of bourgeois ideology had exerted a profound effect and pushed China's society forward.The paper, focusing on Liang's economic thoughts, elaborate Liang's life, the origin of his thoughts, his research on western economics, such as field and agriculture, reviving industry, making use of foreign fund, financial construction, fiscal and thoughts on other aspects, and try to give a complete and systematic presentation of Liang's economic thoughts.The paper can be divided into two parts. The first part, i.e. chapter 1 , illustrates Liang Qichao' s life history and the origin of Liang' sthought, focusing on the shaping and development of Liang' s thought. The following part forms the skeleton of the dessertation, taking a comprehensive look at Liang' s thought. Chapter IIcenters on Liang' s propaganda of Western Economics, illustration on free trade and thoughts on profiting and allocating. Chapter III is about Liang' s thought on land and agriculture. During the controversy with bourgeois revolutionists, Liang was firmly against the nationalization of farm land and the unitary tax on the farm land, he tried to maintain the irrationality of nationalizing farm land. On agriculture, Liang pinpointed the importance of agriculture in economic development, advocating develop agriculture by modern management. Chapter FV expound Liang' s thought on developing machinery industry, developing venture cooperation and trust. Liang put hope of developing industry on China' s capitalists, from the viewpoint of Liang Qichao industry can boom only in the interest of capitalist. Chapter V deals with the Liang' s thought on utilizing foreign capital, in which different periods of Liang' s thought on foreign fund are thoroughly considered. Of all the Progressives who put forward a series of advices on using foreign fund for the sake of developing national economy. Liang was outstanding for he gave a full consideration of the positve and negative effect of making use of foreign fun...
Keywords/Search Tags:Liang Qichao Economic thought, Utilizing foreign capital, Dual Standard, Developing national economy
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