The Merit of Misfortune: Taiping Rebellion and the Rise of Indirect Taxation in Late Imperial China, 1850s-1900s
MORE INFORMATIONThis article is included in the LSE Working Paper Series 2021. Download it HERE.CITE THIS VERSIONDeng, H., 2021, The Merit of Misfortune: Taiping Rebellion and the Rise of Indirect Taxation in Late Imperial China, 1850s-1900s, LSE Economic History Working Paper, No. 320, 1-68.Reexamine the Restoration: Fiscal Capacity and Industrialization in Modern China, 1860s-1930s
MORE INFORMATIONThe long abstract with preliminary results is HERE.SLIDES AND PRESENTATION VIDEOUpon request.Fiscal Decentralization, Historical Legacy and Economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Coastal Prefectures in China, 2010-2015
MORE INFORMATIONThe preliminary version of this article, as an MSc dissertation, was awarded Distinction (70/100) by the Department of Government, London School of Economics.A History of Decentralization: Fiscal Transitions in Late Imperial China, 1850-1911
MORE INFORMATIONThis monograph is the expansion of my PhD thesis that is downloadable in the LSE Theses Online Database.PRELIMINARY TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface1. Theoretical Perspectives1.1. The Making of a Fiscal State1.2. Reconsidering the Framework2. Scenario Setting2.1. Two Contradictions in the Qing Fiscal Studies2.2. Research Overview3. Forced Decentralization3.1. The Taiping Rebellion3.2. The Qing Central Fiscal Crisis3.3. The Rise and Persistence of the Lijin Institution4. Indirect Taxation4.1. The Pre-1850 Domestic Customs4.2. The Decline of Domestic Customs4.3. The Aftermath: A Duopoly of Lijin and Maritime Customs5. Foreign Borrowing5.1. The Pre-1850 Qing Fiscal Shortfall5.2. The Bottom-up Adoption of Foreign Borrowing5.3. A Typology: Foreign Borrowing and Late Qing Fiscal Capacity6. Public Spending6.1. The 1853 Fiscal Apportionment Scheme6.2. The Changing Pattern of Late Qing Public Spending6.3. The Self-Strengthening Industrialization7. Concluding RemarksContemporary Studies‘International Clan Linkage and SMEs in Coastal China, 1978-2000’slides‘Inequality of High-School Education and College Admission in China, 2000-2020’‘Fiscal Decentralization, Historical Legacy, and Economic Performance in Coastal China, 2010-2015’Historical Studies‘Taxation and Foreign Borrowing in Late Imperial China, 1853-1911’‘Radical Fiscal Reform and Pervasive Rebellions during the New Policy Decade, 1901-1911’