Dear Mr Yee, There is one book by a Chinese author which you might like to look at: Gang Deng: The premodern Chinese Economy There is also - and as far as I know it's the only one of its kind - a book on the Chinese History of Economic Thought book written by a Chinese author, which is also used for courses on HET in China: Hu Jichuang: A concise history of Chinese economic thought. Susanne Ruehle