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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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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 June 1975
      ISBN-13 9780804708715
      978-0804708715
      ISBN-10 0804708711
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      Economic geography

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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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