A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and writte

This book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the inte

Ancient Chinese Inventions provides an illustrated introduction to the numerous scientific and technological inventions to which China can lay claim.

The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a prima

Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.