According to Mr. Wang's memory, a course on Chinese economic history was held at Yale University on 1972, and Mr. Yu was asked to tell the graduate students about this problem. In addition, he also participated in the seminar on reviewing the economic history of modern China hosted by Professor Dwight Perkins of Harvard University, and published a paper on the traditional China market. He actively studied Chinese economic history, obviously after 1974. That year, Jinghan Fei came to Taiwan to attend the meeting of academicians of Academia Sinica. On the recommendation of Mr. Zong Xian, they began to study Chinese economic history together. Their cooperation mostly took place when Jinghan Fei returned to Taiwan, but few papers were published. The first part discusses the population dynamics under the traditional agricultural economic system in China (published in 1977), the second part analyzes the land tax burden of China in the Qing Dynasty (published in 1977), and the third part discusses the role of the storage system in the Qing Dynasty (published in 1979). The fourth chapter discusses the rise and fall of traditional families in China (published in 198 1), and the fifth chapter analyzes the distribution structure of agricultural land according to the data of Guangdong land survey in the 1930s (published in 1985). The common characteristics of these papers are that they put forward a suitable theory to analyze the problems discussed; The theory is put forward after fully understanding the historical materials, rather than putting forward the theory and setting the historical materials first. 1984, Jinghan Fei gave a speech at the invitation of Georgetown University. He asked the university to invite Liu Qu to visit at the same time, so as to offer the course of Chinese economic history. That year, they prepared a lot of teaching handouts, but unfortunately they didn't have the opportunity to further organize them into books.
Another area of Jinghan Fei's research is Chinese mainland's economy. 1985 Fei began to teach Chinese mainland Economics at Yale University. The targets are mainly juniors, seniors and graduate students. 1991June, at the invitation of the Institute of Economics of Soochow University, Jinghan Fei returned to China to give lectures and gave a lecture on Chinese mainland economics. The following year (1992), I went to the Department of Economics of Taiwan Province Provincial University to continue teaching this course in cooperation with Zhang Rongfeng. From 1993 to 1995.
Jinghan Fei is a professor of "Jiang Jingguo Distinguished Scholars Lecture" at Taiwan Province Provincial University. He mainly leads research projects related to "Economic Development" and "Chinese mainland Economic Research" and continues to teach this course in the Department of Economics of National Taiwan University. During this decade, Jinghan Fei devoted himself to the teaching of Chinese mainland economics and accumulated a wealth of manuscripts. After his death, Professor Zhang Rongfeng will assist him in compiling and publishing a book.
This "Chinese mainland Economics Lecture Notes" is divided into two parts:
The first part introduces the rise (from 1949 to 1970) and decline (from 1970 to 1978) of the socialist central planned economic system in Chinese mainland, and the operating principle of the planned economic system. Finally, it explains the special capitalist system and the preparatory knowledge of constructing Chinese mainland's overall economic system reform theory.
The second part discusses Chinese mainland's comprehensive economic reform theory since 1979 from four angles. These four angles are: introducing market function, ownership reform, repositioning the role of the government in economic development, and establishing legal measures to consolidate economic reform.
The first part includes lecture 1- 18, and the second part includes lecture 19-34, most of which are written in English and a few in Chinese, and several diagrams are made to illustrate the theory of economic operation.
When explaining the theory of economic operation, Jinghan Fei often uses a chart that looks like a human circulatory system to illustrate the relationship between various economic sectors, which can be said to have his own characteristics. At the beginning of this volume, there are three charts illustrating the socialist transformation. The evolution of the mainland economy is illustrated by the distinctive time axis and various departments of economic activities in the process of socialist economic evolution, and the intricate phenomena are outlined in different colors. Besides showing Jinghan Fei's exquisite thinking and powerful comprehensive power, it should be very helpful for readers who want to know the economic evolution of Chinese mainland.
In addition, Jinghan Fei is deeply interested in the relationship between China's economy and traditional culture. He once discussed this topic in 1986. 1994 put forward his views on China culture and the future of China. He pointed out that Professor Simon Kuznets, the Nobel laureate in economics, judged from the western history that the coming of modern life originated from three cultural values, namely, nationalism, egalitarianism and secularism, which rose in the process of evolution during the six or seven hundred years after the Renaissance. China's traditional cultural values, led by Confucianism, fully conform to the western spirits of nationalism, egalitarianism and WTO entry, and meet the requirements of modern human society. Therefore, in the future, it will not only be enough to unify China, as the basis to promote China's modernization, but also be the mainstream of world cultural thoughts.
Jinghan Fei also discussed the future of China. He believes that the necessary and sufficient condition for the reunification of China is the reunification of the political and economic systems on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Therefore, "one country, two systems" is a false unity of appearance and spirit. In order to achieve the goal of sincere unity and reunification, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait must agree to conduct high-level economic, cultural and social exchanges, so that people on both sides of the strait can understand each other's differences in systems and enhance their wisdom in choosing systems. The future reunification of China or the way of life of the people of China must be the result of the free choice of all people on both sides of the strait, not the coercion of political violence. Therefore, the "democratization of political system" on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is not only the ultimate goal of reunification, but also the only feasible way to gradually realize reunification. This is the goal of all China people at home and abroad.