Ji Chaoding's Key Economic Areas
a discreet challenge from a Chinese Marxist to Eurocentrism in historiography
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Ancient China, History of Theory and Historiography, MarxismAbstract
Historiographical Eurocentrism is an obstacle to study the past and, therefore, the future of many regions in the world. Great Marxist intellectuals and militants offered original perspectives on their countries’ history, such as Caio Prado Jr. in Brazil and Ji Chaoding in China. Ji Chaoding”s main work, Key Economic Areas in Chinese History as Revealed in the Development of Public Works for Water control (1936), gave a discreet solution to Comintern”s official position – “feudal mode of production” – with implications for the revolutionary project, especially in terms of class alliances. At a very difficult time for his home country, the economist proposed a detailed description of Chinese economic history until 1842. He used the concept of Key Economic Area, thus rating positively the wealth and sophistication of social organization in classical China, especially as far as managing res publica, including in rural areas, against considerable environmental challenges. Such preoccupation echoes debates in the international communist movement and even today in academia.
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