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SUMMARY:Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group: Ruling like 
 Qing China\, modelling State Capacity in an Absolutist State - Dr Debin Ma
  (LSE)
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DESCRIPTION:This is a seminar organised by the Political Economy of China 
 Graduate Discussion Group. Please RSVP by contacting Vasiliki at vm314@cam
 .ac.uk or on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/236073913434439/ \n
 \nAbstract \n\nChina’s long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable cha
 llenge to economic historians. The Qing Empire (1644–1911)\, the world
 ’s largest national economy before 1800\, experienced a tripling of popu
 lation during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with no signs of di
 minishing per capita income. While the timing remains in dispute\, a vast 
 gap emerged between newly rich industrial nations and China’s lagging ec
 onomy in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Only with an unprecedented
  growth spurt beginning in the late 1970s did this great divergence separa
 ting China from the global leaders substantially diminish\, allowing China
  to regain its former standing among the world’s largest economies. This
  lecture will explain how deeply embedded political and economic instituti
 ons that contributed to a long process of extensive growth before 1800 sub
 sequently prevented China from capturing the benefits associated with the 
 Industrial Revolution. During the twentieth century\, the gradual erosion 
 of these historic constraints and of new obstacles erected by socialist pl
 anning eventually opened the door to China’s current boom. \n\n\nAbout t
 he Speaker \nDebin Ma is Associate Professor of the Department of Economic
  History at London School of Economics. He obtained his PhD in Economics f
 rom the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and had taught in the 
 United States\, Japan and China. He is currently research affiliate with w
 ith University of Warwick\, Australian National University\, Shanghai Univ
 ersity of Finance and Economics and Fudan University in China. He has serv
 ed as Secretary General for International Economic History Association in 
 2012-2015. His current main research interest includes long-term economic 
 growth in East Asia\, international comparison of living standards and hum
 an capital and comparative political and legal institutions.\n
LOCATION: Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
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