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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 838–840.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Anjana Singh India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) . By Kaveh Yazdani . Leiden : Brill , 2017 . xxxi, 669 pp. ISBN: 9789004330788 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Since the publication of Kenneth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Andre Gunder Frank The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy . By Kenneth Pomeranz . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2000 . 382 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 180 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 501–538.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Philip C. C. Huang Abstract Kenneth pomeranz argues that “the great divergence” between development and involution in Europe and China did not occur until after 1800. Until then, Europe and China were comparable in population history, agriculture, handicraft industry, income, and consumption...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 609–662.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Robert Brenner; Christopher Isett Abstract In the great divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz (2000) proposes a radical revision of our understanding of the pattern of economic evolution in the eastern and western ends of Eurasia over the course of the early modern and modern periods, roughly late Ming...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 157–187.
Published: 01 February 2003
...–Pomeranz–Brenner and Isett Exchange.” Paper presented at the conference on The Great Divergence? The Roots of Economic Development and Underdevelopment in China and Europe, 3 June, University of California, Los Angeles. To be published in China and the West: The Roots of the Divergence , edited...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 377–379.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., Campbell, and Wang; and Brenner and Isett) which provide a close look at Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). Let's turn first to the four articles on East Asia at the middle of the twentieth century...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 759–761.
Published: 01 August 2012
... European superiority and uniqueness; the latter argues that Asian societies were not unlike European ones and experienced equal dynamism. To revisionists, the Great Divergence (in the words of Kenneth Pomeranz) between Europe and Asia did not take place until 1800. To incorporate the Sino-Dutch War...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1152–1154.
Published: 01 November 2021
... book by Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence , stops the analysis prior to the twentieth century, since Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong approached or caught up to Western European countries in that period. 6 There are now many middle- and high-income countries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1105–1106.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of society—be they military officials, bureaucrats, scientists, or foot soldiers—simultaneously come into view. The ensuing “Age of Parity” (1550–1700), however, eventually gave way to a gap in gunpowder warfare that yawned over the course of the eighteenth century—the “Great Military Divergence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 February 2001
... will benefit from the many discussions presented here, and the book gives an informative overview of many of the debates that have dominated the China field over the past twenty years. B0RGE BAKKEN Nordic Institute of Asian Studies The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Peter C. Perdue These authors provide an original perspective on the never-ending debate about the causes of economic divergence between Europe and China in the early modern period. Their analysis complements that of Kenneth Pomeranz in The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 988–990.
Published: 01 November 2013
... as the monographs of the next generation, such as those by Earl Swisher and John King Fairbank, which tapped newly opened Chinese archives. These articles put the Canton Trade in the context of the larger maritime world and the “great divergence” between China and Europe, citing work by such scholars as Leonard...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 767–788.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988 . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press . Huang Philip C. 2002 . “ Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy .” Journal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 524–525.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the norm, especially under the Qing rule. It is a consensus, therefore, that China had to pay heavy prices for its irrational and ignorant closed-door policy, which contributed to the downturn in China's global status, citing, for example, the “Great Divergence.” In the end, China's door had...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 591–607.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988 . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Huang Philip C. C. 2002 . “ Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 463–466.
Published: 01 May 2015
... be qualified” (p. 108), but once he develops his theory of an early Great Divergence, he takes as a given that “the scramble for New World gold and silver had been long preceded by an outflow of silver from China in the thirteenth century” (p. 116). Elsewhere, the export of coin to East and Southeast Asia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Georgia A. Mickey Horesh also challenges the so-called California School historians, chastising them for ignoring the importance of institutions in producing what Kenneth Pomeranz has called the “great divergence” between Western and Chinese patterns of economic development after the seventeenth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 286–287.
Published: 01 February 1957
... great divergences of opinion on specific matters. Certain common themes seem nevertheless to stand out. One is the strong determination to try to be friends with Communist China. Another is the constant concern for the security of India's Himalayan frontiers including Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim since...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., and interregional interactions. This book also infuses critical energy into the ongoing discussion of the Great Divergence, suggesting that the conclusion made by Kenneth Pomeranz would have been different if Chaozhou, alongside southern Fujian and Canton, had been taken into proper consideration. One might...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 453–455.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and property rights, rural and urban economies, the monetary system, commercial networks, foreign trade, and living standards. Part 1 of the second volume focuses on the period between 1800 and 1950. This is the longest of the book's four parts, accounted for by the centrality of “Great Divergence” debates...