the economic history of preindustrial China in order to understand how and why it differed from that of preindustrial …

This chapter provides a review of China’s economic growth since 1978. Studying China’s economic success may shed new … relationship between inequality and economic growth. The chapter starts with a review of the characteristics of China’s economic … growth and compares it with those of several similar economies. Then it shows how China’s economic success has been created …

research on China. Second, we document, through various empirical methods, the robust findings about striking patterns of trend … constructive framework for studying China's modern macroeconomy …