the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and …, characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of … conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India …

comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry …

in over the next 20-30 years. Scholars and researchers interested in China's long term economic development will … keeping pace with China's rapid development …