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Number of items: 78.
Economic History
  • Deng, Kent (2025). Beyond the factory gate: reimagining Indian industrialisation. Penguin Press.
  • Magee, Gary B., Deng, Kent (Eds.) (2025). The European miracle and beyond: essays in honour of Professor E. L. Jones. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Deng, Kent (2025). Introduction. In Deng, Kent (Ed.), The rise and fall of China’s economic miracle, 1950-2030 . Polity Press. picture_as_pdf
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Deng, Kent (2025). The Kuznetsian paradigm for the study of China’s economic history. In Magee, Gary B., Deng, Kent (Eds.), The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones . Palgrave Macmillan. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent (2025). An ‘accidental revolution’ with experimental currencies in Song China, 960-1279 AD. In Magee, Gary B., Deng, Kent (Eds.), The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Deng, Kent (2025). The rise and fall of China’s economic miracle, 1950-2030. Polity Press.
  • Deng, Kent, Shen, Jim Huangnan, Guo, Jingyuan (2024). Performance and mechanisms of the Maoist economy – a holistic approach, 1950-1980. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 67, 646 – 701. picture_as_pdf
  • Guo, Jingyuan, Deng, Kent (2024). Laying off old guards to rebuild state capacity: Deng Xiaoping’s bloodless coup d’etat in post-Mao China, 1980-2000. (Economic History Working Papers 372). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent, Du, Jane (2024). Domestic savings-driven growth: unveiling internal economic dynamics in China, 1980-2010. (Economic History Working Papers 368). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Wang, Yuton, Guo, Jingyuan, Deng, Kent (2023). Inputs, outputs and living standards in rural China during the 1920s and 30s: a quantitative analysis. (Economic History Working Papers 359). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent (11 January 2023) Can China’s economic growth recover in 2023? China Dialogues. picture_as_pdf
  • Liu, Xiaojie, Shen, Jim Huangnan, Deng, Kent (2022). Endowment structure, property rights and reforms of large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China: past, present and future. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 62, 675 - 692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.05.006
  • Deng, Kent, Shen, Jim Huangnan, Guo, Jingyuan (2022). Performance and mechanisms of the Maoist economy: a holistic approach, 1950-1980. (Economic History Working Papers 345). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent (2021). China’s pursuit of modernity. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.631
  • Deng, Kent (2021). Ultra-low tax regime in Imperial China, 1368-1911. (Economic History Working Papers 324). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2021). The Kuznetsian paradigm for the study of modern economic history and the Great Divergence with appendices of literature review and statistical data. (Economic History Working Papers 321). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Shen, Jim Huangnan, Deng, Kent, Tang, Sarah (2019). Re-evaluating the ‘smile curve’ in relation to outsourcing industrialization. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2019.1694505
  • Deng, Kent, Shen, Jim Huangnan (2019). From state resource allocation to a 'low-level equilibrium trap': re-evaluation of economic performance of Mao's China, 1949-78. (Working Papers 2019 298). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent, Shengmin, Sun (2019). China’s extraordinary population expansion and its determinants during the qing period, 1644-1911. Population Review, 58(1), 20-77. https://doi.org/10.1353/prv.2019.0001 picture_as_pdf
  • Shuchen, Liu, Deng, Kent, Shengmin, Sun (2018). Forced ruralisation of urban youth during Mao’s rule and women’s status in post-Mao China: an empirical study. (Economic History Working Papers 291). Department of Economic History. picture_as_pdf
  • Du, Jane, Deng, Kent (2017). Getting food prices right: the state versus the market in reforming China, 1979–2006. European Review of Economic History, 21(3), 302 - 325. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex005
  • Booth, Anne, Deng, Kent (2017). Japanese colonialism in comparative perspective. Journal of World History, 28(1), 61-98. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2017.0002
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2017). How well did facts travel to support protracted debate on the history of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China? (Economic History Working Papers 257/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.
  • Shen, Huangnan, Fang, Lei, Deng, Kent (2017). Rise of ‘Red Zaibatsu’ in China: entrenchment and expansion of large state-owned enterprises, 1990-2016. (Economic History working papers 260/2017). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Zan, Luca, Deng, Kent (2017). Micro foundations in the Great Divergence debate: opening up a new perspective. (Economic History Working Papers 256/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.
  • Booth, Anne, Deng, Kent (2016). Japanese colonialism in comparative perspective. (Economic History working papers 254/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Liu, Xiaojie, Shen, Jim Huangnan, Deng, Kent (2016). A rational path towards a Pareto optimum for reforms of large state-owned enterprise in China, past, present and future. (Economic History Working Papers 244/2016). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Du, Jane, Deng, Kent (2016). To get the prices right for food: a “Gerschenkron state” versus the market in reforming China, 1979–2006. (Economic History working papers 234/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent, O’Brien, Patrick Karl (2016). China’s GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to communist times. (Economic History working paper series 229/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent, Zheng, Lucy (2015). Economic restructuring and demographic growth: demystifying growth and development in Northern Song China, 960–1127. Economic History Review, 68(4), 1107 - 1131. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12100
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Deng, Kent (2015). Locating a chronology for the great divergence: a critical survey of published data deployed for the measurement of nominal wages for Ming and Qing China. (Economic History working paper series 213/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent (2014). A survey of recent research in Chinese economic history. Journal of Economic Surveys, 28(4), 600-616. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12064
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2014). Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 – c.1840. (Economic History Working Paper Series 207/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent (2013). Demystifying growth and development in North Song China, 960–1127. (Working paper 178). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ferdinand, Peter, Deng, Kent (2012). Book Review: governance in pacific Asia: political economy and development from Japan to Burma.
  • Deng, Kent (2012). Book review: Eurofetish: the West and the rest in world politics.
  • Deng, Kent (2012). Book review: why China needs the outside world more than the world needs China.
  • Deng, Kent (2012). The continuation and efficiency of the Chinese fiscal state, 700 bc – ad 1911. In Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé, O'Brien, Patrick, Comín Comín, Francisco (Eds.), The Rise of Fiscal States: a Global History, 1500–1914 (pp. 335-352). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139004237.018
  • Deng, Kent (2011). China's political economy in modern times: changes and economic consequences, 1800-2000. Routledge.
  • Deng, Kent (2011). Why shipping “declined” in China from the middle ages to the nineteenth century. In Unger, Richard W. (Ed.), Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850 . Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Deng, Kent, Liu, Jerry (2009). Editorial introduction. In Deng, Kent, Liu, Jerry, Inkster, Ian (Eds.), Technology in China . Continuum (Firm).
  • Deng, Kent (2009). Movers and shakers of knowledge in China during the Ming-Qing period. In Inkster, Ian (Ed.), Technology in China (pp. 57-80). Continuum (Firm).
  • Deng, Kent, Liu, Jerry, Inkster, Ian (Eds.) (2009). Technology in China. Continuum (Firm).
  • Deng, Kent (2009). Evoluzione sociale di Taiwan e Hong Kong in epoca contemporanea. In Scarpari, Maurizio (Ed.), Verso la Modernità . Giulio Einaudi Editore.
  • Deng, Kent (2008). Decline of China's sea power. In Wade, Geoffrey (Ed.), China and Southeast Asia (pp. 1-21). Routledge.
  • Deng, Kent (2008). Miracle or mirage? Foreign silver, China’s economy and globalisation of the sixteen to nineteenth centuries. Pacific Economic Review, 13(3), 320-357. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0106.2008.00404.x
  • Deng, Kent (2007). China: voyages of exploration. In Hattendorf, John B. (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (pp. 406-414). Oxford University Press.
  • Deng, Kent (2005). The state and market in China's maritime sector. In Xufeng, Liu (Ed.), Zhongguo Haiyang Fazhanshi Lunwenji (Selected Essays on the Maritime History of China) (pp. 479-555). Zhongguo ke xue yuan.
  • Deng, Kent (2004). State building and the original push for institutional change in China, 1840-1950. (Working Papers of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN) 01/04). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent (2004). Unveiling China's true population statistics for the pre-modern era with official census data. Population Review, 43(2), 32-69.
  • Deng, Kent (2004). Why did the Chinese never develop a steam engine? History of Technology, 25, 151-171.
  • Deng, Kent (2003). China, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties. In Mokyr, Joel (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (pp. 423-428). Oxford University Press.
  • Deng, Kent (2003). Diandi (mortgaging land for a loan). In Mokyr, Joel (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (pp. p. 82). Oxford University Press.
  • Deng, Kent (2003). Fact or fiction? Re-examination of Chinese premodern population statistics. (Economic History Working Papers 76/03). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent (2003). Development and its deadlock in Imperial China, 221 B.C.–1840 A.D. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51(2), 479-522. https://doi.org/10.1086/345732
  • Deng, Kent (2003). State transformation, reforms and economic performance in China, 1840–1910. In Teichova, Alice, Matis, Herbert (Eds.), Nation, State and the Economy in History (pp. 308-331). Cambridge University Press.
  • Deng, Kent (2000). Great leaps backward: poverty under Mao. London School of Economics and Political Science & Columbia University.
  • Deng, Kent (2000). A critical survey of recent research in Chinese economic history. Economic History Review, 53(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.00150
  • Deng, Kent (1999). Maritime sector, institutions, and sea power of premodern China. Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Deng, Kent (1999). The premodern Chinese economy: structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility. Routledge.
  • Deng, Kent (1997). The foreign staple trade of China in the premodern era. International History Review, 19(2), 253-283.
  • Deng, Kent (1997). Chinese maritime activities and socioeconomic development. Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Deng, Kent (1995). An evaluation of the role of Admiral Zheng He's voyages in Chinese maritime history. International Journal of Maritime History, 7(2), 1-29.
  • Deng, Kent (1994). The role of literati and technical books in long-term agricultural development in pre-modern times: the Chinese case. In Subacchi, Paola (Ed.), Recent Doctoral Research in Economic History (pp. 67-68). Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
  • Deng, Kent (1993). Development versus stagnation: technological continuity and agricultural progress in pre-modern China. Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Deng, Kent (1993). Property rights in China's reform. Policy, 9(3), 57-59.
  • Deng, Kent (1991). A new way to look at the function of the literati in long-term Chinese economic history. In China: Trade and Reform: Papers From a Conference Held in Sydney on 15-16 November 1990 (pp. 234-244). Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
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  • Deng, Kent, Shen, Jim Huangnan, Guo, Jingyuan (2024). Mechanisms and performance of the Maoist economy: a holistic approach, 1950-1980. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 67(7), 646-701. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341632 picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent (2015). China’s population expansion and its causes during the Qing period, 1644–1911. (Economic History working paper series 219/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent (2007). Zheng He (1371 - 1433). In Hattendorf, John B. (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (pp. 467-468). Oxford University Press.
  • Deng, Kent (2003). Zhitan (salary land). In Mokyr, Joel (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (pp. 300-301). Oxford University Press.
  • Deng, Kent (1999). 220 - 618 A.D. In Overy, Richard (Ed.), The Times Atlas of World History (pp. 124-125). Times Books (Firm).
  • Deng, Kent (1999). Autumn period 770-476 B.C. to Ch'in dynasty 221-207 B.C. In Overy, Richard (Ed.), The Times Atlas of World History (pp. 80-81). Times Books (Firm).
  • Deng, Kent (1999). Palaeolithic to Bronze Ages, 7500 - 771 B.C. In Overy, Richard (Ed.), The Times Atlas of World History (pp. 62-63). Times Books (Firm).
  • Deng, Kent (1999). Late Manchu Qing China, 1800 - 1911. In O'Brien, Patrick (Ed.), Philip's Atlas of World History (pp. 198-199). Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • Deng, Kent (1999). Ming and Manchu Qing China, 1368 - 1800. In O'Brien, Patrick (Ed.), Philip's Atlas of World History (pp. 138-139). Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • Deng, Kent (1999). The People's Republic of China since 1949. In O'Brien, Patrick (Ed.), Philip's Atlas of World History (pp. 254-255). Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • Deng, Kent (1999). The Republic of China 1911 - 1949. In O'Brien, Patrick (Ed.), Philip's Atlas of World History (pp. 224-225). Octopus Publishing Group Limited.