Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - History, language: English, abstract: This paper tries to investigate the development of population and economic development in china in the last millennium. There have been roughly three phases of development in China's history. The first phase starts at the beginning of the last millennium till 1820, we call this agrarian civilization. As agrarian economy, China had been performing better than Europe until the song dynasty in the eleventh century. After that China had been stagnating for about six centuries until 1820 in respect of...