A short profile of China and its recent history here. If you prefer the written history to the timeline, this site is for you. The outline is meant to be a background for the more thorough third link.
An economic timeline of China since 1950 here. This page is brief and skeletal, but helpful to introduce the time frame of China's economic rise and give it some historical context. You can also search the site's timeline by theme and decade. Once you are familiar with the basic history, there is more detailed information about events along with specific data on the page below.
A more thorough history with explanations of China's economic reforms here. This article fleshes out the somewhat more skeletal timeline above, and is full of meaty data that would be useful to back up an argument or include in a letter! Don't be intimidated by its length – many of the pages are data tables and references.
The Sydney Morning Herald's profile of Chinese economic historian Qin Hui here. A Chinese view of Chinese communism and capitalist development that is missing in some of the other articles is discussed by Qin Hui, a Chinese scholar who explains the connections between the Community Party and China's growing economy.
Crouching Dragon: UNCTAD Report on Opportunities and Difficulties Facing China in the World Trading System here. By discussing some of the difficulties the Chinese economy is facing in the global economy, this report makes China's role in the global economy a little bit clearer.
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