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In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society.
Preface ixI Technology in HistoricalPerspective 1II The Economic Matrix 25III The Nineteenth Century: Americaas Borrower 59IV The Nineteenth Century: Americaas Initiator 87V The Twentieth Century 117VI Technology and Social Options 172Index 203