Philip C. Huang

Bio: Philip C. Huang is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 28 citations.

華北的小農經濟與社會變遷 = The Peasant economy and social change in North China

Abstract: Philip C. C. Huang. The author integrates three major traditions of peasant studies and uses vast quantities of new materials to present a convincing interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. Through a comparison of the histories of small family farms and larger scale managerial farms, the author documents and illustrates the long-term trends of agricultural commercialization, social differentiation, and mounting population pressure. He shows how those changes combined to produce, within the small peasant economy, a noncapitalizing managerial elite and a partially proletarianized peasantry, a pattern of change different from and more volatile than the development in Western Europe of a capitalizing elite and a proletarianizing peasantry. $37.50

Revisiting Imperial China’s trajectory in the context of the 'rise of the West'. The Eurocentric legacy in historical sociology

Abstract: This thesis proposes a theoretical and historical reconstruction of the ‘Great Divergence’ between Europe and China. In contrast with both the dominant narrative on the ‘Rise of the West’ and its main detractor, the California School, the dissertation enquires critically into the categories of ‘China’ and ‘Europe’ and contests their temporal and spatial homogeneity. In this, the thesis proposes a unique way to overcome Eurocentrism in International Relations and to sociologically understand similarity and dissimilarity in development. The thesis reveals facets of Eurocentrism which are overlooked in all approaches engaging with the issue of divergence and informing the IR literature (neo-institutionalist economic history, neo-Weberian Sociology, World-Systems Theory, mode-of-production analyses, and the California School). These Eurocentric conceptual anachronisms are: the naturalisation of the European international system; the understanding of Europe as a homogenous entity; the postulate of a universal rationality; and the ontologising of analytical categories derived from the Western experience. The thesis’ methodology, informed by Political Marxism, overcomes such Eurocentrism through its unique reading of Marx, leading to a socialising of geopolitics and rationality, and theorising the specific nature of developmental trajectories, thereby enabling the productive transfer of its method to non-European contexts. From this anti-Eurocentric standpoint, the thesis submits an alternative narrative on the trajectory of Imperial China from the 7th to the 19th Centuries. Re-problematising the contested and changing nature of China’s authority relations and political geography as stemming from social conflicts around politically-constituted power challenges the Realist, English School’s, and California School’s assumptions of its stability, hegemony, and immutability widely held to have prevented take-off. Such a convergence between Continental Europe and China until the 19th Century, contrasting with the IR assumptions of a series of Chinese absences and European structural exceptionalisms, highlights the Anglo-Continental 17th Century divergence as a unique resolution of social conflicts, essential to Europe-China comparative strategies.

'Surrendering the task' : British Baptists in China, 1937-1952

Abstract: ................................................................................................................ 1 Declaration ........................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................. 3 Table of contents .................................................................................................. 4 List of figures ........................................................................................................ 7 Note on language .................................................................................................. 7 List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................. 8 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 9 Chapter One: Characteristics of the Baptist Missionary Society and its China Missionaries ....................................................................................................... 38 Origins, early influences and founding principles ........................................................................... 38 Organisational structure, terms of service and funding ............................................................... 45 Profile of BMS China Missionaries, July 1937 ................................................................................... 58 The development of BMS work in China ............................................................................................. 62 Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................................... 75 Chapter Two: The effect of the Japanese occupation on the BMS and the Chinese Baptist Church in Shandong, 1937-­‐1942 .............................................................. 77 The impact of war .......................................................................................................................................... 81 BMS missionaries as third-­‐party nationals during the occupation ......................................... 87 The Chinese Baptist church in occupied Shandong ...................................................................... 100 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................... 114 Chapter Three: The BMS in Shaanxi province, 1937 to 1945 .............................. 117 The Red Army in Shaanxi ......................................................................................................................... 118 BMS evangelical work in Shaanxi during the war years ............................................................. 126 The educational work of the mission .................................................................................................. 131 Impact of the war in Europe, and the British entry into the war against Japan ............... 146 Treaty revision and international relationships ............................................................................ 150

Confucian meritocratic democracy : a comparative and philosophical study of Confucian meritocracy and democracy

Abstract: .................................................................................................... 6 Note on Translations and Transliterations ............................................. 7 The Annotated Timeline of Some Chinese Dynasties and Key Confucian Events Relevant to this Thesis ............................................... 8

New Roads to Capitalism: China and Global Value Chains

Abstract: The creation of markets in China has been most commonly analyzed through the lens and vocabulary of the new institutional economics in which broad, national-level institutional reforms are seen to be effective because they altered the incentive structures of farmers, local government officials, or factory managers. Drawing from literature on comparative capitalism which focuses on the processes of production, this dissertation examines markets through deconstructing production to the level of specific commodities. It utilizes a value chain framework by beginning with the cultivation of cotton, wool and silk agricultural commodities, and tracing them through China's textile and garment industries and into domestic and foreign trade. It considers each of these links along the chain as a locus of conflict between China's many ministries, local governments and economic actors, highlighting the political contestation and the complexity of state policy underlying the institutionalization of markets. By tracing how the terms of trade become structured along the chain over time, it details the re-creation of economic order and the distribution of resources among different producer groups. This approach is employed to construct a comparative historical narrative of China's textile agro-industries, starting from the domestic market reforms in the 1980s through to China's international integration in the 1990s, a period which coincided with major transformations in global manufacturing. In terms of domestic market reforms in the 1980s, it first shows that an institutional economics perspective mistakenly draws too clear a line between China's planned economy and the market reforms over the 1980s. By examining reforms at the level of concrete commodities and along the value chain, the planned economy and market reforms are re-conceptualized as being deeply interpenetrated such that the vitality of China's nascent market economy grew not simply from the liberation of economic interests through institutional re-engineering, but from the structure of China's version of a planned economy. Second, it examines China's international integration over the 1990s by analyzing the impact of the contemporary transformations in global manufacturing, in which vertically integrated production along the value chain has been sliced up and re-integrated through cross-national networks of production. This fragmentation of production introduced a new form of capitalist development in China in terms of the organization and regulation of industry and the composition of its labor force. Finally, the dissertation's approach offers new insights into the study of China's rapid rise in regional inequality. Instead of explaining regional inequality through differences in location advantages, it finds that regional inequalities arose more from changes in regulation between direct producers along the production chain. The dissertation employs a variety of data sources, including fieldwork interviews, Chinese newspapers and trade journals, internal government documents and statistics, yearbooks and local gazetteers, industrial and population censuses and digital mapping techniques.