The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Glahn, Richard von. The economic history of China : from Antiquity to the nineteenth century. Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2016. ISBN : 978-1-1076-1570-0 China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before ..