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WITTFOGEL'S THEORY OF ORIENTAL SOCIETY ( or HYDRAULIC SOCIETY) AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDIES OF CHINESE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY IN JAPAN
Author(s) -
MASUBUCHI TATSUO
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1049.1966.tb00481.x
Subject(s) - chinese society , world war ii , empire , social change , history , sociology , economic history , social science , china , political science , ancient history , law
Wittfogel's theory of Oriental Society has influenced studies of Chinese social and economic history in Japan in many forms, but since the Second World War a critical tendency has predominated. In this article the author has endeavoured to show what Japanese scholars have taken over from Wittfogel, of what points they are critical, and in what ways they are attempting to surmount these, at the same time reviewing developments in studies of Chinese social and economic history in Japan since the Second World War, and in particular studies of the process of the formation of the ancient empire under the Ch ‘in and Han dynasties.