[ SERIES ]
A Chronicle of Chinese Manufacturing
Long-run accounts of shipbuilding, machine tools, traction batteries, solar and high-speed rail, with two institutional companions on tax-sharing reform and the Zhu Rongji years.
Part 1
One Bloodline: From the Jiangnan Arsenal to the Three Pearls (1865–2026)
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Part 2
A Ship Is a Map of an Industry Chain: Anatomy of China's Shipbuilding, Upstream to Downstream
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Part 3
Built, But No One Dares Use It: The Four Gaps in China's Marine-Equipment Industry
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Part 4
The Mother Machine: Seventy Years of China's Climb in Machine Tools (1953-2026)
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Part 5
Power Batteries: China's Thirty-Year Comeback in Manufacturing (1995-2026)
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Part 6
Photovoltaics: How China Made Sunlight the Cheapest Electricity (2001-2026)
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Part 7
High-Speed Rail: China's Two Decades of Acceleration (2003-2026)
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Part 8
The Tax-Sharing Reform and Chinese Manufacturing: The Thirty-Year Industrial Tail of a Fiscal Overhaul
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Part 9
Zhu Rongji and Chinese Manufacturing: Institutional Foundations and Industrial Legacy, 1987-2003
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