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Xie Fengzhai
E-mail：xiefz@tjnu.edu.cn
Research Interests
My research directionis "the Economic and Social History of Europe", and compare with "the Economic and Social History of China". The author believes that the development of European "market economy" does not come out suddenly after the "Great Voyage", but comes from a relatively long historical process. As early as in the period of feudal territory in the middle ages, the early type of "market economy" (pre-market economy) hassprouted in Europe due to the existence of "contract principle".After the "great navigation", due to the large-scale development of world trade, the development of market economy has a broader turning space. Of course, in the early stage of the development of world trade, compared with China and India in the East, Europe's trade was in a "deficit" position. However, after Britain became a "maritime overlord", in order to gain a monopoly position in trade, Britain completely overwhelmed the East in production, and broke out the "industrial revolution". This is another great leap of productivity in human history after the"agricultural revolution" in the Neolithic age. As a result, the western world has gained huge commodity production capacity and commodity circulation capacity, and the market economy has become mature in an all-roundway. This kind of economy began to push forward from the coast to the mainlandin the global scope, which eventually led to the spread of market economy to the world. This view has been fully elaborated in the book the Development and Evolution of European Market Economy written by the author.
Education
Bachelor: 1981.7-1985.9;
Master: 1986.7-1989.9;
Doctor: 1999.7-2002.9;
All Graduated from World History Major, Department of History,Peking University
Teaching Courses
Undergraduate courses: Medieval Civilizations,Modern European Civilizations;
Postgraduate courses:Seminars on Medieval Europe;
Doctoral courses: Frontier Academic Studies
Professional Experience
From September 1998 to July 1999, History Department of Peking University visited for one year
Professional Affiliations
Director of China Medieval World History Society
member of Oriental Diplomatic History Research Association
Funded Research Projects
From June 2010 to June 2015, general program of NSFC: Rural Market Research in Medieval England;
From June 2012 to June 2017, a major national bidding project -- a subproject of "European Civilization Process": Research on the Development of European Market Economy;
June 2019 to June 2022,later stage project of Humanities and Social Sciences supported by the Ministry of Education: British Feudal Estates Economic Research (1086-1380).
Key Publications
Monographs
1. Introduction to the Development of the British Market: the Period of "Internal Expansion" in the 12th-14th Century,World Knowledge Press, 2004.
2. World Medieval History - Ancient World in the 5th to 15th Century A.D., World Knowledge Press, 2009.
Articles
1. “On the Extraordinary Development of ‘the Village Market’ in the Medieval England, History Monthly, No. 9, 2010, pp.68-77.
2. “When Is the Economic Gap between China and West Opened? On Angus Madison's‘Millennium Statistics’”,Research on Historiography Theory, No. 4, 2012, pp.40-48.
3. “Agriculture,Population and Market: On Postan's New Population Theory”,World History, No.1, 2013, pp.15-27.
4. “On the Open Structure of British Feudal Economy”, published by the Department ofHistory, Peking University:Feudalism from a Multiple Perspective: Celebrating Mr. Mark Biao's 80th Birthday, Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2013.
5. “The Two-way Origins of the Rise of European Cities”,Guangming Daily, No.11, 2013(Jan 17).
Translations
The World Famous Works Appreciation Dictionary, part of the content (about 100000 words); China Book press, 1993 edition.
Awards and Honors
2012-2015,appraised as the “Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Backbone Teacher of Tianjin's 13th Five-Year Plan”.
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