This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …

China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance … democracies are more likely to import surveillance AI from China. This bias is not observed in AI imports from the US or in … imports of other frontier technologies from China. Third, autocracies and weak democracies are especially more likely to …

We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the … increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we … disaggregate among commodity types and account for the endogeneity of Chinese exports. We confirm the tendency for China's exports …

increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant … between industry and occupational analyses. While other research has focused primarily on China's trade, we find that … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much …

In this paper, we provide aggregate trends in China's trade performance from the 1840s to the present. Based on … historical benchmarks, we argue that China's recent gains are not exclusively due to the reforms since 1978. Rather, foreign …, Shanghai already accounted for more than half of China's foreign trade. In tracking the levels and growth rates of the city …

cross-provincial variation in institutional quality in China, and export data that distinguishes between foreign and …