近年来,不少明清经济史学者对18世纪中国经济发展程度提出了新的评估,强调直至进入19世纪之前,中国江南地区的经济发展其实并不逊于英国、西欧或世界其他任何地区。诸如R.Bin Wong(王国斌)的《ChinaTransformed:Historical Change and the Limits ofEuropean Experience》(Itha In recent years, quite a number of economic historians in the Ming and Qing dynasties have proposed a new assessment of the degree of economic development in the eighteenth century in China, stressing that until the 19th century, the economic development in southern China was in no way inferior to that in Britain, Western Europe or any other part of the world. Such as R. China Wong’s “China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience” (Itha