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Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll and F. Warren McFarlan
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Abstract

Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history.

Keywords

Economics; Government and Politics; History; Society; China

Citation

Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-073, December 2008. (Revised June 2010.)
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