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From Physiocracy to a New Productive Rural China

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dc.contributor.author Zhang, Boya
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture
dc.contributor.corporatename Harvard University
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-15T15:17:34Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-15T15:17:34Z
dc.date.issued 2023-03
dc.description ConCave Ph.D. Symposium 2022 Proceedings, April 7-8, 2022. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
dc.description.abstract This paper examines the reception and impacts of Western ideas of the “agrarian” in China. In particular, it traces how the agrarian philosophy of the Physiocrats traveled across space and time and how this line of thinking influenced the Chinese urban-rural transformation at the turn of the twentieth century. The paper examines Adam Smith’s interpretation of the Physiocracy, and how the agrarian idea was embedded in the liberal school of political economy. By tracing the significant role of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Liang Qichao in cross-cultural borrowing, the paper reveals the Western “agrarian” roots within the concept of “local self-government.” As the paper suggests, it was this line of thought that influenced the state regeneration in early modern China. As a representative case, Zhang Jian’s village-ism and his agrarian practice in Nantong are presented as the epitome of the local self-government movement in the early twentieth century, which marked one of the first rural modernization efforts in China. By tracing the intellectual transmission of the idea of the “agrarian,” the paper aims to unpack the connotation of the “agrarian modern” as an alternative to the mainstream model of high-dense cities and depopulated countryside. This paper offers a perspective to situate the urban-rural transformation in early modern China in a global context without the conventional West-East divide.
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/70313
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.35090/gatech/5974
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Agrarianism
dc.subject agrarian modern
dc.subject rural transformation
dc.subject urban-rural continuum
dc.subject China
dc.title From Physiocracy to a New Productive Rural China
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Architecture
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