The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China

Abstract

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Repetition and Magic -- 1. The Economic, China, World History: A Critique of Pure Ideology -- 2. The Economic and the State: The Asiatic Mode of Production -- 3. The Economic as Transhistory: Temporality, the Market, and the Austrian School -- 4. The Economic as Lived Experience: Semicolonialism and China -- 5. The Economic as Culture and the Culture of the Economic: Filming Shanghai -- Afterword -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX