We study the economics of international joint ventures with administrative data for China exploiting the change in … foreign direct investment policy as China entered the WTO in the year 2002. Accounting for a quarter of all international …). As China has dropped joint venture requirements and shifted towards wholly foreign-owned FDI as part of becoming a member …

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 …