This research examines recent developments and trends in international academic research on business and management that utilizes data from China. Information collected are from papers published from 2009 to 2015 in the 24 journals used by the University of Texas at Dallas Business School Research Rank (UTD-24) and the 45 journals used by Financial Times Research Rank (FT-45) . After identifying all papers using data source from China in those journals, the paper further examines the variations of China data based publications across disciplines and journals and the dynamics of those variations over time, the patterns of research collaborations among individual researchers and research areas with publications using China data source, and the evolution and associations of research topics as represented by the keywords used in the publications with China data source. Leveraging the latest developments in data science, advanced data mining and visualization techniques are adopted to aid our analysis and illustrate our findings. Our research shed light on the global impacts of data from China on cutting-edge academic research in business and management, as well as the trends in research developments with China data source.