全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP8808 Shanghai?s Trade, China?s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP8808
	DP8808 Shanghai?s Trade, China?s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War
	Wolfgang Keller; Carol Shiue; Ben Li
发表日期	2012-01-30
出版年	2012
语种	英语
摘要	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 economic activity can be understood by developments that were set in motion in the 19th century. We turn our focus to Shanghai, currently the world?s largest port. Shanghai began direct trade relations with western nations starting in 1843. By 1853, Shanghai already accounted for more than half of China?s foreign trade. In tracking the levels and growth rates of the city?s net and gross imports and exports, foreign direct investment, and foreign residents over more than a century, we find that Shanghai?s level of bilateral trade today with the United States, the United Kingdom, or Japan, for example, are by no means high given Shanghai?s 19th century experience. This paper argues that a regional approach that embeds national trading destinations within an international trading system provides a meaningful approach to understanding the history of China?s trade.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Colonialism Foreign direct investment Institutions International migration Re-exports Treaty port
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp8808
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537632
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wolfgang Keller,Carol Shiue,Ben Li. DP8808 Shanghai?s Trade, China?s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War. 2012.