Credits

Opening image sequence (lecture 1)

• Pudong skyline at night, Shanghai — DvTor8303, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
• The Great Wall at Mutianyu — Lloyd Tudor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Futian business district, Shenzhen — Pathfinbird, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• High-speed train CRH380A at a station — N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Yantian container port, Shenzhen — Gigel.atat, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Shenzhou-15 spacewalk — China Manned Space Engineering Office, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• BYD Atto 3 at the Munich motor show — Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Chongqing skyline at night — Maple Doctor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Three Gorges Dam — Thomas Bächinger, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest) — CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Yangshan deep-water port, Shanghai — Bruno Corpet (Quoique), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong — Wilfredor, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
• Terracotta Army, Xi'an — Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• The Forbidden City, Beijing — Pixelflake, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Electronics factory, Shenzhen — Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
• AgiBot X2 humanoid robot (AgiBot, Shanghai), MWC Barcelona 2026 — JJxFile, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Beijing West Railway Station — N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Street near Wenshu Monastery, Chengdu — Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
• Primary-school students — Thomas Galvez from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Longji rice terraces, Guangxi — Rutger van der Maar, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Images on opium (lecture 1)

• A Poppy in Three Stages of Flowering, with a Caterpillar, Pupa and Butterfly (Johanna Helena Herolt, late 17th-early 18th century) — Johanna Helena Herolt; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
• The Opium Fleet descending the Ganges en route to Calcutta (lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850) — Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Two wealthy Chinese opium smokers (gouache on rice paper, 19th century) — Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
• Destroying Chinese war junks (the Nemesis in Anson's Bay, 7 January 1841), by Edward Duncan, 1843 — Edward Duncan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
• A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction (lithograph, 19th century) — Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Images on the late Qing (lecture 1)

• China, the cake of kings and... emperors (Henri Meyer, Le Petit Journal, January 1898) — Henri Meyer; Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
• The Battle of the Yalu River (Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1894) — Kobayashi Kiyochika; The British Library, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Maps

Boundaries and shaded relief: Natural Earth (public domain), redrawn for the course.

Texts and data

Quoted headlines belong to their publishers and are shown for teaching. Statistics: World Bank, National Bureau of Statistics of China, and the sources cited on each slide. Charts from Naughton (2007), The Chinese Economy, and from Meng, Qian and Yared (2015), Review of Economic Studies, are shown for teaching, at reduced size and with the citation on the slide.