China's wealthy bypass the banks
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Fri Nov 12 10:11:09 PST 2004
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ken wrote:
> > And when was this stagnation?
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> Two words: Ming Navy
For those who need more words, the Qing Dynasty forbade
ownership or building of ocean going vessels, on pain of death
- the early equivalent of the iron curtain.
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