books.google.com.au - In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production,...https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Sugar_and_Society_in_China.html?id=qa7a68bIfPkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSugar and Society in China