Dwight H. Perkins, Aldine Transaction, 2013 Agricultural Development in China explains how China’s farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population. Dwight H. Perkins begins in the year A.D. 1368, the founding date of the Ming dynasty. More...
Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business Review Press, 2014 In this thought-provoking book, noted China experts from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School assert that while China has experienced remarkable economic growth...
Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., Brill Publishers, 2014 Modern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new...
Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University Press, 2013 Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle...
Dwight H. Perkins, Harvard University Press, 2013 In the early 1960s, fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China’s per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in South Korea’s rural areas were on par with some of the world’s...