Another historian, Niall Ferguson, reckons that what went so spectacularly wrong for China then is more remarkable and worthy of investigation than why things should now be going right.

• 另一位历史学家尼奥?弗格森（NiallFerguson）认为，研究中国当年为何走向衰落远比讨论现在为何崛起要重要而有意义的多。