Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.5, 2021

The Reception of Research on Modern Chinese Economic Thought in the West

(Abstract)

Zou Jinwen

In the mid-nineteenth century, as China was forced into inclusion in the economic globalization system dominated by the West, Chinese economic thought started the process of “learning from the West.” Along with the development of modern Chinese economic thought was the fact that Chinese economic thought began to influence the West, and had a certain degree of influence on Western economic theory and policy-making. As a result, mutual learning between China and the West emerged in the course of China’s study of Western economics over the past century and more. Based on literature in English, we can expand research connotations through a global perspective on Chinese economic thought from the nineteenth century on, showing how it absorbed the fine achievements of the world economy and contributed to the development of world economic thought, thus highlighting Chinese attention to and reflection on mutual learning among human civilizations.