@BrankoMilan Small talk Wang Yanan, who translated Ricardo's Principles into Chinese in 1931.The year before he went to Japan to study, two complete translations of Ricardo's Principles were published, which may have motivated him (with another co-translator) to translate them into Chinese./1

@BrankoMilan Wang was the first in China to use Ricardo's Principles as a textbook and teach it at a university (Sun Yat-sen University) in 1940. He also applied Ricardo's theory to Chinese reality so that students could understand it./2

@BrankoMilan Wang was the originator of "Chinese economics" and his seminal work, “The Principles of Chinese Economy” (1950), was heavily influenced by Ricardo and Marx.　/3

@BrankoMilan The acceptance of Ricardo in Japan and China was linked to practical reforms aimed at reducing social inequality and rural backwardness. /4

@BrankoMilan Therefore, the acceptance of Ricardo in Japan and China would be unique in that it was at the same time strongly linked to the acceptance of Marx./end