The Spread of Western Economics in China: Features and Influence (1840—1949)
2 作者信息:
Lin Cheng, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Shen Zhang, Shanghai Academy of Social Science
3 出处:
Lin Cheng,Shen Zhang. The Spread of Western Economics in China: Features and Influence (1840–1949)[J]. Front. Econ. China, 2017, 12(2): 193-227.
链接:
http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.3868/s060-006-017-0010-9
http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/Y2017/V12/I2/193
4 摘要
西方经济学说在中国的传播:特点与影响(1840–1949)
程霖,上海财经大学
张申,上海社科院
摘要:西方经济学说在近代中国的传播是一项内容庞杂、跨时百年的历史事件,对其主要特点进行分析与提炼有助于实现对这一过程的深刻理解。本文认为,西方经济学说的传播具有五个主要特点:开放性、阶段性、应用性、本土性及局限性。开放性反映了国人主动学习与传播西方经济学说的积极态度,阶段性显示了传播表现与研究重点的时段变迁,应用性表明了传播是以学科发展和经世济国为目标,本土性则体现了基于实地情况的对西方经济理论的选择性引进与修正,而因现代化早期所面临的诸多困难,传播的局限性不可避免。此外,该传播还对中国产生了深远影响并体现于上述特点之中:其促进了中国现代经济学科的建立,为中国社会的现代化进程提供了适当范例,并推动了中国传统经济体系的转型。
The Spread of Western Economics in China: Features and Influence (1840—1949)
Lin Cheng, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Shen Zhang, Shanghai Academy of Social Science
Abstract:
The spread of Western economics in modern China is a content-rich historical event which hastaken more than a century. A complete understanding of this event depends on the analysis and summary of its features. This paper suggests that the spread of Western economics in modern China exhibits five main features: openness, periodicity, applicability, localization and limitation. Openness reflects the active attitude of Chinese scholars to learning and propagating Westerneconomics. Periodicity reflects the changes in its effectiveness and focus overtime. Applicability reflects its goal of promoting the development of Chinese economics and providing policy applications for China’s economic growth. Localization of Western economic theories in China follows the trend of selected introduction and modification according to local situations. And limitation is inevitable because of the many difficulties facing the spread of Western economics during early modern times. Furthermore, this spread has a profound impact on China which is embodied in its features: it promotes the establishment of Chinese modern economics, provides appropriate examples for the modernization and evolution of Chinese society, and promotes transformation of the traditional economic system in China.