China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective

by Dwight H. Perkins

A$20 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1975. Stock ID #160296 xvi + 344pp, notes, index, ex-library, dustjacket extremities little worn, a good hardback copy. Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin acquiring the fruits of modern technology? To what extent did the rapid economic developments after 1949 depend on features unique to China and to Chinese history and on the

• Binding: Hardcover

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