Why was there no capitalism in early modern China?

ABSTRACT In this paper, we ask the following question: why couldn’t Early Modern China make the leap to capitalism, as we have come to know it in the West? We suggest that, even if China compared well with the West in key economic features - commercialization and commodification of goods, land, labo...

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Main Author: TIAGO NASSER APPEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora 34
Series:Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572017000100167&lng=en&tlng=en