Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Judging “Schemes of Oeconomy” 3
5. Travelling Knowledge in the “Discerning Age”: Ethnography and Enlightenment 33
6. “The Most Unscrupulous People on Earth”: The Paradox of China's Commercial Spirit 71
7. “Your Beggarly Commerce!”: China and International Trade 96
8. “The Science of Princes”: China's Constitutional Foundations 126
9. “Duties of the Sovereign”: Civil and Military Successes and Failures 152
10. “Very Ignorant Reasoners”: China's Science and Technology 190
11. Prospects for the “Stationary State” 222
12. Bibliography 231
13. Index 251