This 2016 book won two book prizes. It had been hailed as game-changing in its economic analysis of China from 1978 to 2016. Deng Xiaoping…
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Tag: Economic History (Books)
When The Red Gates Opened – Part 1
Unless you are Arundhati Roy, whose memoir on her relationship with her difficult but distinguished mom, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ (published 2025), was reviewed…
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The Economic Rollercoaster – Part 2
More: The 10,000 Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan is a tour de force. This 2020 book surveys how the world economy…
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The Steep Trail of Reform
Never Turn Back by Julian Gewirtz, published 2022, is a history of China in the 1980s. Julian using Chinese sources shows a China that was…
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The Economic Rollercoaster – Part 1
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan is a tour de force. Published in 2020 this excellent book surveys how the…
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The Rise and Fall of Economies: Comparative Histories of Middle East and China
These three books are on comparative history. The long divergence’s key argument is that by the 19th century, the Middle East had fallen way behind…
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Introduction to Western specialists on China’s history (Part 2)
Jacques Gernet is a French sinophile. Long before the Americans, he had written highly acclaimed books on China’s history. Buddhism in Chinese Society was written…
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