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China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China�

State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between

Modern Asian economic history has often been written in terms of Western impact and Asia's response to it. This volume argues that the growth of intra-regional