China’s Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage

'Xiao-Guang Zhang's new book provides a much-needed empirical study of China's changing trade patterns. Zhang finds that reform has shifted trade flows in the direction of national comparative advantage. He also shows that rapid growth has begun to erode comparative advantage in the labour-intensive manufacturers that powered China's remarkable export surge.' - Professor Thomas G. Rawski, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh 'China's Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage is the most comprehensive study available of China's evolving pattern of trade. It explains how the increasing openness associated with trade reforms has influenced the structure of domestic prices which, in turn, has led to a growing convergence of China's trade patterns and its underlying comparative advantage.' - Nicholas R. Lardy, Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance, School of Management, Yale University