The article has two aims. First, it develope a new method, using available aggregate data, to estimate the "real" size of Chinese urban population over the period 1949-90, and then derives urban net migration during the same period. Secondly, with these estimates, it analyses the patterns of...

This study shows that China's post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began in the late nineteenth century. It was initiated by pressing national defence needs and has since been motivated by the same and strong incentives for a faster catch-up with the...

Using adata fundamentalist approach,ʺ this study revisits the long debate about Chinas growth performance by seriously tackling the existing data problems that have been the major obstacles to a proper assessment of Chinas growth performance. First, this study examines and adjusts the serious...