Economic Growth in Prewar China - Thomas G. Rawski - Hardcover

"A landmark study that will stimulate a major rethinking of the character of Chinese society in the first half of the twentieth century. It challenges persuasively so much of the conventional wisdom concerning the nature of China's economy prior to 1949 that it will almost certainly become one of the most widely quoted studies of Chinese economic growth in the twentieth century."--Nicholas R. Lardy, University of Washington "Rawski's book offers the first comprehensive synthesis of early twentieth-century Chinese history based on original research from an economist's point of view. It directly and aggressively challenges major propositions espoused by leading historians and provides alternatives to these standard interpretations."--Sherman Cochran, Cornell UniversityRawski, Thomas G. is the author of 'Economic Growth in Prewar China - Thomas G. Rawski - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780520063723 and ISBN 0520063724.