Financial history of Hungary (Chinese)

This Chinese edition of the book “East of Europe, West of Asia” by Csaba Lentner (co-edited and published by L’Harmattan, Budapest and the most prestigious China Social Sciences Press, Beijing) is the revised and expanded edition of this groundbreaking monograph, originally published in 2020 (L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2020).

The Hungarian tribes, arriving from the Asian steppes, have occupied and then populated the middle part of Central-Europe, the area between the mountain ranges of the Alps and the Carpathians run across by the Danube and Tisza rivers, in the 9th-10th century. Compared to Western-European countries, the adoption of Christianity, the founding of the state, then the establishment of the inherent western-type state administration has begun in Hungary several hundred years later. From the middle of the 16th century, this process was wrecked right away by the losing wars against the Ottoman Empire, followed by the subjection to the „liberator” Habsburg Empire that has lasted for hundreds of years, as well as by the adaptation constraints though bringing occasionally economic and social convergence. In a strange way, only the losing World War I put an end to it entirely.