Chinese Economic History up to 1949 (2 vols)

ISBN: 9781905246526 出版年：2008 页码：690 Brill

The development of China’s economy has been an enigma to Western historians. Was it centuries of stagnation followed by collapse or was it a process of steady development, reaching a high point by the eighteenth century? What is certain is that its economic growth never developed into a full industrial revolution and was overtaken by the West.