The Research From The Economic Perspective On A Critical History Of Institutions By Ma Duanlin

A Critical History of Institutions(Wen Xian Tong Kao)written by Ma Duanlin inherits and develops the writing form of institution and system in History of Institutions(Tong Dian)by Du You,and the comprehensive and integral thought in History of Biography and Encyclopedia(Tong Zhi)by Zheng Qiao.Covering an encyclopedic domain and consisting of comprehensive institutions,the Book serves as an important literature for the research on China's ancient systems and institutions.The dissertation focuses on the interactive writing model and salient economic thought to make an analysis on the economic perspective in the book by employing a way of illustration,systematic balance,figure and statistics,deduction and induction,and case studyThe dissertation elaborate on temporal features,social and family background and their influence on the writing of the Book.The dissertation makes a genre analysis by a comparison between A Critical History of Institutions,History of Institutions and the History of Biography and Encyclopedia to boil out a result of their academic inheritance and to point out the value and influence of the Book in terms of its institutional characteristics.The dissertation analyze the logic structure of rhetorical integration of “literature”,“remarks”,and “critique”,and it innovates a method of rhetorical destructure to the study of the Book so as to generalize the literature,the remark and the critique,in particular applies it to the elaboration on the economic perspective in the economic session of the Book.The research maintains the idea that the Book exercises value and significance of bibliography to the study of China's ancient institutions,particularly,the history of Song Dynasty.The priority of economic review plays an important role to the analysis of social structure and economic operation,which deserves our further investigation.The preface clarifies the aim and significance of choosing the topic,generalize the previous basics of relative research and propose the way and approach of the dissertation to the study of the Book.Chapter one takes a description of the temporal and family background and an analysis of the historical attitude and thought of Ma and his father,reflecting their historical thought and ethnic stand.It also reveals a methodology adopted by Ma towards his historical research.Chapter two demonstrates the genre innovation and literature importance of the Book through a contrast of the merit as well as the demerit of the Book against the other two books.It singles out the economic session as the emphasis of the research focus of the dissertation.Chapter three and Chapter four make a comprehensive elaboration on the economic session of the Book consisting of eight chapters,namely,land and tax,monetary currency,household registration,forced labor service,taxation and market monopoly,grain procurement,tribute of land product,revenue and expenditure.It sorts out the economic thought and reference significance to the social and economic administration.Chapter five reviews the economic reform along with the Chinese history and make a case study on Shang Yang Economic Reform to illustrate the economic value of Ma's idea towards the social progress and economic advance.The dissertation concludes itself with a rethinking of the writing model,a generalization and emphasis of the viewpoints,a summary of the value of Ma's Book and reaffirm the economic thought and its significance to the current social and economic administration.