According to culinary scholars, American food retained a strongly British character through most of its history. Chinese food was the exception. Beginning in the early-twentieth century, Chinese restaurants began appearing outside of Chinatowns and the cuisine entered the cultural mainstream....

Based on the variable rate of GDP per capita growth and its sources, this paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan and South Korean: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (a la Kuznets), H (human capital based) and PD (post...