China’s 2,000-year-old painted ‘terracotta army’ dates back to the Han dynasty (202BC-AD220), the first studied in this analysis of historical growth and inequality. Eddie Gerald/Alamy Stock Photo

What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI‑driven technology panic – and the future of inequality

China’s long-unified identity and language has enabled academics to track cycles of growth and inequality in thousand-year-old economic records. This is what they reveal.

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