Chao, Kang (contributor); Dernberger, Robert F. (contributor) - 1975
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 reorganization of society? These are the major questions examined in …