China's sustained rapid economic growth over the era of its systemic reform is of general importance for late development under globalization. This article seeks to construct an explanation of the experience, which centers on the notion of an evolving development path that embodies an uneasy mix...

Since the turn of the century, China’s state and society have focused their efforts on "constructing a harmonious society". Viewed from the perspective of globalization, these efforts represent a quest for a model of development that deviates fundamentally from neo-liberalism. In...

Using a range of specifications that are standard in the relevant literature, this paper finds that China’s rapid and sustained economic growth in the reform era has tended to be negatively correlated with its export growth and positively correlated with its import growth. This finding...