The Chinese were fooled by the "Qing Dynasty GDP world first"!

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The Chinese were fooled by the "Qing Dynasty GDP world first"! "The first of the Qing Dynasty 's GDP in the world before the Opium War " was widely circulated in China. Traced to the earliest, it seems that the British scholar, Madison, one of his guesses that China's GDP accounted for 33% of the world's total in 1820 (the UK is 5.2%), his discussion by the professional people are generally not rigorous. But in China, a lot of non-professionals value the idea of enlightenment, increase the spread of the ranks, and finally led the public opinion field to believe it.

GDP is a modern economic concept, can be relatively accurate description of modern state economic situation, reflecting their competitiveness. It takes great care to do historical research with this system. For example, in the 1820 Qing Dynasty , the financial income was only 40,000,002 Silver , while the UK was 150 million . The industrial gap between the two countries is greater, the UK in the 1820 has entered the era of steam, the pillar industry for mechanical textiles, steel , and so on, while China still with silk, porcelain, tea as the bulk .


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The Chinese were fooled by the "Qing Dynasty GDP world first"!

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