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Oct
24
2014

Margherita Zanasi - "Frugality and Luxury: Morality, Market, and Consumption in Late Imperial China"

When: Friday, October 24, 2014
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT

Where: University Hall, 018, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Sarah McGinley   (847) 491-7980

Group: Asian Studies

Category: Academic

Description:

This talk discusses the development of Chinese economic thought from the mid-sixteenth to late-eighteenth century, focusing in particular on notions of market and consumption and on their relationship with morality. In this period, arguments in favor of luxury consumption and free market emerged, anticipating of almost two centuries crucial issues of the European laissez faire thought.

Although similarities with the European precursors of economic liberalism are evident, the background against which they emerged varied significantly, leading to distinctive ramifications. In China pro-luxury arguments were short-lived, due to several factors, including population growth and the gap between hinterland and coastal economies.

 

Margherita Zanasi, Department of History Associate Professor at Louisiana State University. 

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