About the Project

Big Data China is a collaboration between the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics and the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) dedicated to bridging the gap between cutting-edge quantitative academic research and the Washington policy community. The goal of Big Data China is to analyze leading academic research on China and highlight the most relevant findings for today’s policy issues. We hope you’ll explore our website, which will regularly be updated with new multimedia features, written analysis, and public events.

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China’s Post-Reform Trajectory: An Interview with Yasheng Huang

In this interview for Big Data China, Trustee Chair Senior Fellow Ilaria Mazzocco speaks with Yasheng Huang (MIT Slogan School of Management) about Chinese institutions and their role in shaping China’s political and economic trajectory, U.S.-China academic collaboration in an era of increasing competition, his framework for understanding the role of diversity in a successful and innovative…

Unpacking Linkages Between the Chinese State and Private Firms

Ever since China began integrating into the global economy and shifting away from a planned economy in the late 1970s, domestic and foreign observers have closely tracked the development of the country’s emerging private sector to better understand the relationship between state and business, the country’s progress towards modernization, and the implications for the international…

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