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(1) The following references include the subjects of Chinese economic 
thought and French physiocrat. 
 
Ye Tan (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Economics) 'An 
analysis of the historical study of Chinese economic thought in the 1920s 
and 1930s' in A. Ikeo ed. _Economic Development in Twentieth Century East 
Asia_, Routlege, 1997, pp. 35-54. (The editor cannot read Chinese.) 
 
Ye referred to Tang Qing-zeng's _The History of Chinese Economic Thought_ 
vol. 1, (in Chinese), University Series, published by the Commercial Press, 
 Sanghai, 1936. 
'Tang (1936) is generally acknowledged as a representative work on the 
history of Chinese economic thought before 1949'. (Ye 1997: 42) 'Tang 
studied finance and the history of Western economic thought at Harvard'. 
(Ye 1997: 42) 
 
Ye (1997: 37) said, 'As we know, the cultural exchange and interaction 
between China and Japan can be traced far back. _The History of European 
Economics_, written by the Japanese scholar Seiichi Takimoto, has a 
subtitle: 'The Origin of Western Modern Economics in the Doctrines of 
China'. Among the Chinese works translated into Western languages during 
the 1920s and 1930s, those relevant to the history of economics include 
_The Book of Lord Shang_, translated by G. G. L. Duybandak (London 1928); 
_Xun-tzu_, translated by H. H. Dubo (London 1928); _Discourses on Slat and 
Iron_ translated by E. M. Gale et al. (Leiden 1931). Western scholars also 
translated and published other books and did some relevant research, but 
these cannot be regarded as systematic study of the history of Chinese 
economic thought. During this period, scholars in France, Germany, Britain, 
the USA, Japan and China published various works, exploring the influence 
which Chinese culture exerted on the West, especially the problem of the 
origins of the French physiocracy theory in Chinese thought.' 
 
(2) According to Ye Tan and Zeng Xueyi (Peking University, Research Center 
for the Market Economy), Si-ma Qian (the author of _Historical Record_) is 
also an important figure in the history of Chinese economic thought. 
 
(3) Akio Nakata, Professor of Higashi Nippon International University 
(Japan) is specialized in French economic thought and Chinese thought 
including Confucianism. He spent several years in France. Higashi Nippon 
International University has the Institute of Confucian Culture. 
 
Those who are willing to study Chinese economic thought need to look up the 
works on Chinese study. 
 
Aiko Ikeo 
 
 
 
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