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  • 5 - The State and Enterprises in Late Qing China

  • from Part I - 1800–1950
  • Edited by Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Richard von Glahn, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Economic History of China
    Published online:
    07 February 2022
    Print publication:
    24 February 2022, pp 167-183

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the so-called Self-Strengthening era during the second half of the nineteenth century when the Qing empire was expanding state involvement in industry and technology from its traditional ideology. The origin and motivation of state involvement in the private market during this era is different from that in the early twentieth century, which began to take lessons from Meiji Japan and the ideology of modernization (see Bian’s chapter in this volume). There were some elements of continuity here – in remnants of “Self-Strengthening” through the state efforts both to build up modern enterprises and develop to science and technology. This chapter explains the impact of the state sector’s emergence that was manifested in the development and expansion of state arsenals and modern enterprises.