REORIENT: GLOBAL ECONOMY IN THE ASIAN AGE

Book ID/图书代码： 13520011B45805

English Summary/英文概要： Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism--to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank explains the Rise of the West in world economic and demographic terms that relate it in a single historical sweep to the decline of the East around 1800. European states, he says, used the silver extracted from the American colonies to buy entry into an expanding Asian market that already flourished in the global economy. Resorting to import substitution and export promotion in the world market, they became Newly Industrializing Economies and tipped the global economic balance to the West. That is precisely what East Asia is doing today, Frank points out, to recover its traditional dominance. As a result, the "center" of the world economy is once again moving to the "Middle Kingdom" of China. Anyone interested in Asia, in world systems and world economic and social history, in international relations, and in comparative area studies, will have to take into account Frank’s exciting reassessment of our global economic past and future.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《白银资本:重视经济全球化中的东方》是一部极具挑战性的重要著作。它对1500年以来世界各地之间的经济联系作了一个气势恢宏的论述。作者安德烈·贡德·弗兰克把中国置于亚洲的中心，把亚洲置于全球经济的中心。他认为，中国需求白银，欧洲需求中国商品，这二者的结合导致了全世界的商业扩张。与学术界多数人的通常看法不同，在他的分析中，中国在工业革命前的经济史中占据着极其突出和积极的地位。为了阐述他的观点，他广泛利用了其他学者的研究成果，包括研究亚洲和欧洲经济史的专家的最新成果。

西方最初在亚洲经济列车上买了一个三等厢座位，然后包租了整整一个车厢，只是到19世纪才设法取代了亚洲在火车头的位置。名副其实贫穷可怜的欧洲人怎么能买得起亚洲经济列车上哪怕是三等车厢的车票呢？欧洲人想法找到了钱，或者是偷窃，或者是勒索，或者是挣到了钱。(DB)

Awards/获奖情况："Frank shows how Marx and Weber got it all wrong. A fundamental rethinking of the rise of the West and the origin of the world-system. Absolutely essential to understanding world history."--Albert Bergesen,University of Arizona

"The great virtue of this stimulating book is its relentless push to redefine our framework for thinking about the early modern economy. . . . A benchmark study."--R. Bin Wong,University of California, Irvine

About the Author/作者介绍： 贡德・弗兰克，西方著名学者，加拿大多伦多大学社会学系教授。1929年生于德国柏林。1957年毕业于芝加哥大学，获经济学博士学位，1978年获巴黎第八大学政治经济学国家博士学位。曾在欧洲、北美和拉丁美洲多所大学执教。弗兰克一直致力于世界体系史、当代国际政治、经济和社会运动的研究，为依附理论代表人物之一。 Andre Gunder Frank, of the University of Toronto, has published more than thirty books. Most recently he coedited, with Barry Gills, World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? (1996).

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