Chapter One Geographic Environment and Its Influences on the Chinese Economy
Section 1 Territory, Natural Environment and Geographic Features
Section 2 Climate, History and Culture
Section 3Population and Market
Chapter Two Rivalry Between the Agricultural Community and the Nomadic Tribes
Section 1 The Great Wall: a Division Between the Agricultural Area
and the Nomadic Area
Section 2 The Imperial China, Controlled Alternately by the Nomadic
and Agricultural Nationalities
Section 3 Frontier Trades, Tributes, Wars and Plunders
Chapter Three A Vital Artery of the Empire :The Grand Canal
Section 1 The Separation of Political Center and Economic Center
Section 2 How Southern Agriculture Supported Northern Economy
Section 3 Water Projects
Chapter Four The Once Neglected Marine Trade
Section 1 The Proagriculture Culture
Section 2 State Monopoly, Businessmen and Bandits
Section 3 Marine Silk Road, Spread of Chinese Civilization,
and Tributary System
Part Two: From Qing Dynasty to Republic of China
Chapter Five Colonial Chinese Economy
Section 1 The Clash Between the Tribute System and Colonization
Section 2 Opium, Foreign Capital Inflow and Military Invasions
Section 3 Foreign Concessions and Foreign Goods
Section 4Chinese National Capitalists
Chapter Six Influence of Wars on the Economy
Section 1 Struggle Among Warlords and Its Influence on the
Chinese Economy
Section 2 World War I and the Great Depression
Section 3 World War II and Its Devastation for China
Section 4The Chinese Civil War and Its Influence on the
Chinese Economy
Part Three: Economy of the Peoples Republic of China
Chapter Seven Planned Economy and a Painful Transition
Section 1 The Soviet Model and Socialist Transformation
Section 2 The “Great Leap Forward” and the “Cultural Revolution”
Section 3 From Dual System to Special Economic Zones
Chapter Eight Rapid Development and Future Challenges
Section 1 The Stock and the Housing Markets
Section 2 The Shadow of Economic Crisis
Section 3 Population and Aging
Section 4The Wealth Gap and Urbanization