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

A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and wi

The most comprehensive English-language overview of the modern Chinese economy, covering China's economic development since 1949 and post-1978 reforms--from ind

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

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