China's Economic Rise

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Rise of a Nation

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   Pages 1-33

3. The Kamakura Period (1185–1333): Emergence of Military Government: The Bakufu

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4. The Muromachi Period (1333–1568) and the Azuchi–Momoyama Period (1568–1600)

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5. The Tokugawa Period (1600– 1868 ): Isolation and Change

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6. The Meiji Period ( 1868 –1912): Industrialisation and Democratisation

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7. The Taisho Period (1912–1926): Transition from Democracy to a Military Economy

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8. The Showa Period (1926– 1989 ): War and the Emergence of a Modern Japan

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9. The Heisei Period ( 1989 –2019): Economic Stagnation and the Rise of China

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10. Conclusion: Lessons for Contemporary China

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    Pages 281-295

11. Back Matter

    Pages 297-312

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This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan’s economic development. Beginning with Japan’s rise to statehood in the Kamakura Period (1185 to 1333) and detailing the evolution of its economy through to 2018, parallels are drawn with the economic development of China. Many of the challenges Japan faced in the first decades of the 20th century, including nationalism, militarism, income disparities, social deprivation, and economic crisis are applicable to modern day China.


China’s Economic Rise: Lessons from Japan’s Political Economy aims to detail the possible economic and political upheavals that could accompany the slowing of the Chinese economy from the experience of Japan. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in Political Economy, Economic History, Economic Transition, and Development Economics. The book supplements the other publications of the author: China’s Lessons for India: Volume 1 – The Political Economy of Development, China’s Lessons for India: Volume 2 – The Political Economy of Change and The Rise of Empires: The Political Economy of Innovation. 

• Economic development of China
• Japan after the Meiji restoration
• Economic evolution of Japan
• Domestic economic stagnation
• Global economic crisis
• Emerging economies

• Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Sangaralingam Ramesh

Sangaralingam Ramesh is an Economics Tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and a Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics at University College London, UK. He has been an Associate Professor in Economics at the Université Paris Dauphine GBD and Economics Module Leader at Kings College London.

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