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Title: A good introductory to Huang's historiography.
Review: For those who have never read Ray Huang's work before, this collection of essays is an excellent introduction to various research specialties of Huang. They include: Taxation and Government Finance in the 16th century Ming Dynasty; commerce in Ming China; captialism, etc. The collection also includes an essay on Macro History - a thesis that cost Huang's career in the Ivy League circle.The content in this book is very repetitive. Otherwise, I am quite impressed by the depth of Huang's analysis as to why captialism had failed to take root in China; how China had come to attain a revolution in its fiscal management and why such fiscal revolution, attained in the 1980s, is central to China's stability.
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