An ‘accidental revolution’ with experimental currencies in Song China, 960-1279 AD
Deng, K.
(2025).
An ‘accidental revolution’ with experimental currencies in Song China, 960-1279 AD.
In
Magee, G. B. & Deng, K.
(Eds.),
The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones
.
Palgrave Macmillan.
(2025).
An ‘accidental revolution’ with experimental currencies in Song China, 960-1279 AD.
In
Magee, G. B. & Deng, K.
(Eds.),
The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones
.
Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter investigates reasons why China suddenly broke off from its foregone tradition of agrarian dominance and opted for manufacturing and commerce. This new choice led to an array of changes geographically, demographically, commercially, and fiscally. It also opened China up internationally. But China did not plan these changes ex ante. They all happened accidentally through trial and error.