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Kenneth Pomeranz
彭慕兰Kenneth Pomeranz is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning global connections, social history. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
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Kenneth Pomeranz is best known for The Great Divergence, which compares the most developed regions of eighteenth-century China and Western Europe on symmetrical terms and asks how coal, colonies, resource constraints, markets, and ecological conditions shaped industrialization.
The book's significance is not that it proved China and Europe were entirely alike, but that it changed the terms of comparison. Rather than assume Europe had always led and then ask why China failed, it compares regional conditions at the same analytical scale; in this sense, The Great Divergence became an agenda-setting work of global economic history.
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