Brandt, Loren; Ma, Debin; Rawski, Thomas G. - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2013
China’s long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable challenge to economic historians. The Qing Empire (1644 … industrial nations and China’s lagging economy in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Only with an unprecedented growth spurt … beginning in the late 1970s did this great divergence separating China from the global leaders substantially diminish, allowing …