“New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy

Janku, Andrea

Abstract

The chapter on “Political Economy,” Jingji 經濟, in Explorations into the Origins of Western Learning, Xixue tanyuan 西學探源, written in Chinese by the Japanese official-turned-educator and political writer Okamoto Kansuke 罔本監輔 (1839–1904) and published in 1901 by the Commercial Press in Shanghai, offers a curious explanation of the importance of this new scientific discipline. It begins with a straightforward definition:

Citation

Janku, A. (2013). “New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy. In M. Doleželová-Velingerová, & R. G. Wagner (Eds.), Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870‐1920): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought (329-366). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35916-3_10

• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2013
• Deposit Date: Apr 2, 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 329-366
• Book Title: Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870‐1920): Changing Chinese Ways of Thought
• ISBN: 9783642359156
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35916-3_10
• Keywords: Political Economy, Western Learn, Economic Competition, Periodical Press, Current Affair