Chinese economic thought before the seventeenth century. By Jichuang Hu. English text edited by Foster Stockwell and Zhao Shuhan. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1984.
Professor Hu’s booklet traces the parallels between the economic thought of traditional China before the seventeenth century and that of Europe until the 1930s. It is not intended to offer an examination of China’s economic thinking in antiquity; it is rather, a succinct outline of the ideas developed in China that can be contrasted with specific Western economic theories. Others, no matter how valuable they may be, are not included, according to the author.