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Commerce and Society in Sung China (Paperback)
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The full dimensions of the medieval Chinese economic revolution are
still almost unknown to economic historians in the Western world,
and the manifold problems that it raises for accepted theories of
economic development have hardly begun to be systematically
considered. Japanese scholars have been the pioneers in opening up
this field, and Professor Shiba's Commerce and Society in Sung
China is among the most recent and most impressive fruits of their
labors. For the first time it is possible to be relatively
confident, as the result of the author's systematic exploitation of
an enormous range of source materials, about the parts played by
transport, trade, business organization and urbanization in this
revolution. It is hardly necessary to labor the significance of the
advance. China's was beyond any reasonable doubt the most developed
economy in the medieval world, and the investigation both of the
causes that made this possible and of those that subsequently
prevented a take-off into sustained growth is among the most
pressing tasks waiting to be accomplished before any general theory
of economic development, solidly grounded in comparative historical
analysis, becomes possible.
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