General Information & Statistics

• US-China Business Council
• China Economic News (Yahoo News)
• China Development Brief (Focuses on non-governmental organizations in China)
• Chinability.com
• China's Economy: On-line Research (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
• China In Transition (Research Institute of Industry, Trade, and Economy -- Japan)
• China Data Center (University of Michigan)
• China Statistical Information Network (PRC National Bureau of Statistics)
• Searchable for China data:
  • United Nations Human Development Data
  • World Bank Data By Country
  • Development Gateway
  • Nationmaster

• Ministry of Commerce
• China Council for the Promotion of International Trade

Academic Sites

• China ’s Economic Emergence: Progress, Pitfalls, and Implications at Home and Abroad, Columbia University, April 7-8, 2005
• China: From Shared Poverty to Uneven Wealth (Taejoon Han, GWU)
• Advertising in China (Baker Institute, Rice University)

  • "Public Advertising Culture in China: Spiritual Civilization, Local Development, Privatization and Public Service"
  • "Advertising Culture in Chinese Cities"
  • "Outdoor Commercial Advertising in Shanghai, 1997-1998"
  • "Images of China's Changing Consumer Culture"
• "Confucianism and Capitalism: Reflections on the Role of Culture in Chinese Economic Development, Past and Pressent" Harriet Zurndorfer, Leiden University, Lecture given at Rice University, March 2, 2005

Media Sites

• China On the Rise (PBS NewsHour Series, Fall 2005))
• Commanding Heights: China Country Report (PBS)

  • [High Speed Connection/Rich Media Edition: click on "China"]
• How Will the WTO Change China? (PBS/WideAngle)
• PNTR The China Trade Debate (PBS NewsHour Special Report, 2000-01)