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Common Dynamics Industrial Evolution, not Revolution? Rethinking Regions Explaining the Industrial Revolution in Europe Emperors and Reign Periods (PDF) Timeline of Chinese Inventions (PDF) China's Gifts to the West (PDF) Chinese Ideas in the West (PDF) Excerpts of Interest

Print Common Dynamics Despite the continued effort of scholars to claim that China and Europe were fundamentally different in economic terms between 1500 and 1800, we have actually learned that there were important dynamics of expansion common to areas within each of these large regions. Constraints of the Preindustrial World and the Historical Hinge of 1800 I am not saying that either Europe as a whole or China as a whole was changing in a lockstep fashion. But I am suggesting that the available data suggest that in the most advanced areas of both of these large world regions, we find comparable dynamics of economic change, at least comparable enough to encourage us to first locate similarities and then with more precision and finesse, identify what we think are differences.