Hmm. If the ngram "Chinese manufacturing" started exploding in books in the mid 80's we can assume the phenomenon started exploding a few years before that. ht

Hmm. If the ngram "Chinese manufacturing" started exploding in books in the mid 80's we can assume the phenomenon started exploding a few years before that. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Chinese+manufacturing&year_start=1800&year_end=2010&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CChinese%20manufacturing%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Chinese+manufa...