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The Pattern of the Chinese Past (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Pattern of the Chinese Past (Paperback, New Ed)
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A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic
development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world
in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering
three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is
only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of
relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this
volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay
together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity
of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of
the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about
1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about
1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance
while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three
sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the
division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of
convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last
analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the
others.
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