Development Centre Studies Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, 960-2030 AD, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

Unique in its depth of perspective, this volume provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China's resurgence over the past half century. Angus Maddison uses a comparative approach to explain why China's role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. He concludes that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world's largest economy by 2015, regaining the position it had held until 1890.

Angus Maddison is emeritus professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and honorary fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge University.