TITLE:
A Study of the Translation and Dissemination of China’s Early Economic Propositions: Centered on Pacific Affairs (1929-1949)
AUTHORS:
Xin Yu, Jinyu Liu
KEYWORDS:
Pacific Affairs, Translation of Early Chinese Economic Propositions, International Dissemination of Economic Viewpoints
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.14 No.6,
June
30,
2026
ABSTRACT: From 1929 to 1949, China formulated a series of systematic economic propositions catering to national independence and people’s liberation amid the development of China’s revolutionary cause. As a key overseas academic journal focusing on China and the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of the 20th century, Pacific Affairs became a vital international platform for disseminating China’s early revolutionary economic thoughts. Taking the journal’s published articles, translations and commentaries from 1929 to 1949 as research materials, this paper explores the translation practices and international dissemination effects of the China’s early economic propositions in Western academic and public spheres. It clarifies the core content, translational features and discourse strategies of China’s economic ideas disseminated via Pacific Affairs, including rural economy, land policies, monetary finance, and international economic relations. This paper further analyzes the historical context and communication paths of such overseas translation, and discusses how the journal eliminated Western informational barriers and biased narratives to build the initial international image of China’s economic governance concepts. This study holds that the translation and dissemination of China’s early economic propositions based on Pacific Affairs realized the cross-cultural transmission of Chinese revolutionary economic thoughts, facilitated the international community’s objective understanding of China’s revolutionary concepts and governance capacity, and offers a valuable historical reference for the international communication of contemporary Chinese economic discourse.