Crossley, Pamela Kyle.  <br/><br/>
China normal: Patterns of urbanization, industrialization, and trade on a eurasian discursive base 

 - Modern Asian Studies   
 - 54(4), Jul, 2020: p.1278-1314 
<br/><br/> Comparative historians have illuminated the weaknesses in the Europe-derived and Europe-centred historical paradigms of the preceding century-and-a-half, while questioning the factual foundations and depth of Europe's development towards capitalism, imperialism, and industrialism. But a continental perspective on China's early modern development suggests the possibilities of a vicinage—or integrated environment—approach to China's development and its relevance to more widespread changes of the early modern period. – Reproduced <br/><br/><br/>