China’s Millennial Pathway in a Strategic Mirror

Huw McKay

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Strategic Logic of China’s Economy, 2024, pp 119-154 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Prior to conducting the requisite strategic examination of the economic history of the People’s Republic of China, it is appropriate to set the scene by considering China’s remarkably long history of unitary empire through the lens of the DST. China’s experience has turned up two major conundrums that continue to engender controversy. The first is the extraordinary longevity of the empire, which is a stark contrast to the experience of Old-World conquest societies (Snooks 1996; Taagepera 1978). The second is the famous “Needham question” (Chen 1991; Elvin 1973; Lin 2012; Needham 1954; Pomeranz 2000; Grinin and Korotayev 2015), which asks why China failed to produce an industrial revolution during the Song dynasty, given its global technological leadership at the time and the obvious progress in a productive technique that characterised the period.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47229-9_5

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