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ABSTRACT : This article considers the unreliability of recent and current estimates of Chinese economic activities, and why this is so. It suggests that long-established and very powerful street representationsof the Chinese, scholars' and merchants' positive cultural constructions of the Chinese, and the abstraction of the Chinese for analysis may have combined to inflate the economic significance of the Chinese.





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