Download or read book Chinese Economic History up to 1949 (2 vols) written by Michael Dillon and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of China’s economy has been an enigma to Western historians. Was it centuries of stagnation followed by collapse or was it a process of steady development, reaching a high point by the eighteenth century? What is certain is that its economic growth never developed into a full industrial revolution and was overtaken by the West.