Representative content from the so-called California School, which leads the most modern trends in American humanities, has been translated into Korean.
The California School refers to an academic trend centered around economists at the University of California who plan a new world history.
The core of the argument is that it opposes Western supremacy and that the East's position in world history must be re-evaluated.
They assess that the period in which Western-style market-oriented economies surpassed Chinese-style state-interventionist economies was only a very short period in world history, and that its lifespan has already ended.
In short, the comparison of Western economic history and Chinese economic history is the topic that most clearly shows the position of the California School.
The Cambridge Economic History of China, recently translated into Korean, is a monumental academic work that reinterprets the history of the Chinese economy from this new world historical perspective.
The academic significance of this comprehensive history of Chinese economics, which has emerged after only half a century, is considerable, not only in the English-speaking world but also in academia around the world, including China and Japan.
The new interpretation of Chinese economic history attempted in this book will serve as a significant foundation not only for re-evaluating Chinese history but also for predicting the future of the global economy.