Chinese GDP per capita fluctuated at a high level during the Northern Song and Ming dynasties before trending downwards during the Qing dynasty. China led the world in living standards during the Northern Song dynasty, but had fallen behind Italy by 1300. At this stage, it is possible that parts of China were still on a par with the richest parts of Europe, but by 1750 the gap was too large to be bridged by regional variation within China and the Great Divergence had already begun before the Industrial Revolution
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Recent work in historical national accounting is surveyed, focusing on the Industrial Revolution and...
We construct 1912/18 Chinese provincial gross domestic product per capita from primary sources and p...
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This paper reconstructs China's economic development between 1840 and 1912 with an estimation of Gro...
Would historians have viewed China in the post-Song time as a transition from a major leading civili...
Why did sustained industrialization and modern economic growth first take off in western Europe and ...
China's long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable challenge to economic historians. The Qing Emp...
Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi and other ‘world historians’, the prosperous parts...
We examine regional variation in Chinese GDP per head for five benchmark years from the Song dynasty...
As a result of recent advances in historical national accounting, estimates of GDP per capita are no...
We construct 1912/18 Chinese provincial gross domestic product per capita from primary sources and p...
In recent decades, national income has become increasingly important as a measure of a nation’s econ...
Recent work in historical national accounting is surveyed, focusing on the Industrial Revolution and...
We construct 1912/18 Chinese provincial gross domestic product per capita from primary sources and p...
This dissertation examines the economic growth process of the Yangzi Delta, one of China’s most deve...
Despite being the first Asian economy to achieve modern economic growth, Japan has received relative...
This article tests recent ideas about the long-term economic development of China compared with Euro...
This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical...
This paper reconstructs China's economic development between 1840 and 1912 with an estimation of Gro...
Would historians have viewed China in the post-Song time as a transition from a major leading civili...
Why did sustained industrialization and modern economic growth first take off in western Europe and ...
China's long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable challenge to economic historians. The Qing Emp...
Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi and other ‘world historians’, the prosperous parts...