The first English translation of Li Bozhong's pioneering study of GDP in early modern China.

Why did modern capitalism not arise in late imperial China? One famous answer comes from Max Weber, whose The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism gave

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Vi

In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in Europe. In res

Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin systematically acquiring the fruits of modern technology? To what ext