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Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin 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 and on the socialist reorganization of society? This book deals with these questions.

Chinas Modern Economy in Historical Perspective

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A Hardback by Dwight H. Perkins

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    Publisher: Stanford University Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/1975
    ISBN13: 9780804708715, 978-0804708715
    ISBN10: 0804708711

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    Book Synopsis
    Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin 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 and on the socialist reorganization of society? This book deals with these questions.

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