China Transformed
Subtitle: Historical Change And The Limits Of European Experience
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780801432545
Subjects: Development economics; Economic history; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; History; China - History; Western Europe - History; History - General History; History: World; China; Economics; Asia - China; Economic conditions; Europe
First sentence: When scholars look for the origins of the contemporary world, many begin with the political expansion of Western states across the globe and the economic transformations brought on by a capitalist system of European origins.