New Explorations in the Comparative Study of Economic History in China and the West.

Based on the new academic achievements by scholars of the California School, this article aims to introduce the new progress in comparative studies on the socioeconomic developments in China and the West. It also tries, with new breakthroughs in methodology and challenges to European centrism, to analyze and summarize the changes as well as trends of research paradigms in the field of world economic history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]