The Premodern Chinese Economy
Subtitle: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780415458641
Subjects: Economics - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business / Economics / Finance
First sentence: China puzzles us by her resilience in spite of a long history that has been full of shocks and disasters, both natural and man-made: periodic droughts and floods, internal riots, potential and actual foreign invasions and occasional alien conquests.