History Quote by Nicholas Wade

“It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or another, China…

— Gordon G. Chang

“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less dramatic than…

— Edward Luce

“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by the Industrial…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Under the Song dynasty, between 960 and 1279, China led the world in many technological innovatons. The Chinese invented clocks, the compass, gunpowder, paper…

— Daron Acemoğlu

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China…

— Anonymous

“Today’s China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed by the…

— Patrick Mendis

“China might have given up on trying to stop the endless civil war, but some of its companies were still here, picking over history’s…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Our central thesis is that some inventions are more important than others, and that the revolutionary century after the Civil War was made possible…

— Robert J. Gordon

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one…

— Gary Locke

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty…

— Ai Weiwei

“The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the product of…

— Rodney Stark

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach