Economic Thought in Modern China:Resistance,Exploration and Enlightenment
Modern China represents an important period of transformation bridging traditional and modern society.With the gradual transformation of China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society,China's intellectual and cultural landscape,including economic thought,underwent significant changes and differentiation.The main features of this era included a variety of nation-saving ideas emerging in response to the great changes that had not been seen in over 3,000 years.These included proposals for economic and social reform inspired by western models,the revolutionary demands from the cries of the Chinese peasants,and the introduction of the Western modern economic theories.Each notion was distinctly marked with class characteristics.First of all,it reflected the ideological division within the feudal ruling class.The distinct viewpoints among the landlord class in power,the landlord class reformers and the conservatives revealed the ideological disintegration of the feudal society at the end of the age.The economic demands and ideas of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Peasant Uprising signaled the impending exit of the feudal economic ideology from the historical stage.however,under the economic invasion by the imperialism,the national bourgeoisie's economic ideas soon concluded its own historical mission.Secondly,in the process of learning modern economics from the West,China's progressive youth have shown different class tendencies.The first group of torchbearers for the spread of Marxism in China appeared.