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- ↑ Huang, Philip C. C. (May 2002). "Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy". The Journal of Asian Studies. 61 (2): 501–538. doi:10.2307/2700299. ISSN 0021-9118. JSTOR 2700299. S2CID 162416631.
- ↑ "John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ↑ "Kenneth Pomeranz Biography | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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