International Multilingual Journal of Contemporary Research

“Jixue” and Modernization of Chinese Economic Thoughts
Qifeng Gong

Abstract
Westernization and Europeanization have long been witnessing the modernization of Chinese economic thoughts in the late 19th and early 20th century. Meanwhile, it was also featured by the intertwinement between Chinese traditional economic thoughts and Western ones. Therefore, this paper tries to posit Yan Fu’s “jixue” within dual stratifications, namely, the traditional Chinese economic thoughts and the intertwinement between Chinese and Western economic thoughts, to disclose the understanding, comprehension and orientation of economics as a discipline in the late 19th and early 20th century and further to reveal the formation of the fundamental economic concept and the modernization of Chinese economic thoughts embedded therein.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/imjcr.v2n3a2