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The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present. Original contributions by an international team of noted experts survey all fields of economic history, including environment, demography, law, household, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and sociology.

The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present, in English. Volume II covers the period from 1800 to the present in twenty-one thematically and chronologically organized chapters, charting the development of the institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped China's modern economy.

The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present, in English. Volume I, which covers the period from 1000 BCE to 1800 CE in eighteen thematically organized chapters, introduces the main institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped the world's largest economy in the premodern era.