ISBN-13: 9781905246526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 676 str.
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.