The Economic History of"Distinction between Justice and Profit"and the Construction of Early Mod-ern Chinese Economic Theory:Chen Huan-chang's"Administering Wealth","Economic History"and"Socialism"
The distinction between justice and profit,known as"the first principle of Confucianism"in the history of thought,has yet to receive sufficient attention regarding its role in the process of creating"economic history"in modem China and its relationship with early China socialism thoughts in terms of ideas.In his economic his-torical writing of"the justice-profit debate"the modern Confucian scholar and economist,Chen Huan-chang created The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School by combining the debate between justice and profit with an economy centred on political systems,which he believed could be renamed Chinese Economic History.Based on the concept of history,this paper tries to examine how Chen Huan-chang used the works of the Ger-man historical school to build a"socialism"based on the"family"with the theme of"justice-profit debate"by bridging the"administering wealth"and the"economic history",reflecting the understanding of intellectuals of"socialism"prior to the introduction of historical materialism and the formation of social and economic history paradigms.
the distinction between justice and profiteconomic historynationalismconfucian socialism