This landmark 2008 study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great b...(展开全部)

This landmark 2008 study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great b...(展开全部)

Will China's recent economic growth continue at the same rate? For how long? What obstacles lie in the way of sustained growth? Who gains and why? Gregory Chow covers these and many other issues. Provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional and theoretical factors that have contributed to China's economic success Reveals new findings conc...(展开全部)

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals t...(展开全部)

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edi...(展开全部)

罗威廉（William T. Rowe），1947年生，美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史系教授，东亚研究中心主任，当代美国最有影响的汉学家之一。他同时也是《晚期中华帝国》（Late Imperial China）杂志主编、《近代中国》（Modern China）和《城市史杂志》（Journal of Urban History）编委。主要研究方向为近代东亚的社会经济和城市史。著有“哈佛中国史”丛书第6卷《最后的中华帝国：大清》，以及《红雨：一个中国县城七个世纪的暴力史》、《汉口：一个中国城市的商业和社会（1796—1889）》、《汉口：一个中国城市的冲突和共同体（1796—1895）》等。 ------ 译者简介 李仁渊，哈佛大学历史与东亚研究博士。现为“中央研究院”历史语言研究所助研究员。研究领域为中国近现代社会与文化史。著有《晚清的新式传播媒体与知识分子...(展开全部)

An engaging look at the drivers of China's impressive development and rise as a potential economic superpower Explains China's unique position as both a transition and a developing economy Highlights the importance of entrepreneurship and the development of the private sector and shows that the structure of the economy is as important as the standard growth factors Examines Chi...(展开全部)

C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Pat...(展开全部)