The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …

In this paper, we adopt a cross-country perspective to examine the evolution of capital flows into China, both in terms … of volumes and composition. China's inflows have generally been dominated by foreign direct investment (FDI), a pattern … globalization. We provide a detailed documentation of the evolution of China's capital controls, a proximate determinant of the …

The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …

. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …

This paper presents assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China's recent rapid economic growth using a two … Chinese economy. These enterprises account for over 50% of China's exports and 60% of China's imports. Their share in Chinese … results indicate that China's FIEs may have contributed over 40% of China's economic growth in 2003 and 2004, and without this …

China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in … China accounted for 45 percent of China's exports. Foreign investments include foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign …