Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin systematically acquiring the fruits of modern technology? To what extent did the rapid economic developments after 1949 depend on features unique to China and to Chinese history as well as on the socialist...

1. The characteristics of China's traditional economy / Man-houng Lin -- 2. The late Qing dynasty to the early Republic of China : a period of great institutional transformation / Kenneth S. Chan -- 3. The centrally planned command economy (1949-84) / Dwight H. Perkins -- 4. China's economic...