Paper Archive

• Steam Beyond the Gateways: Steamship Connectivity and Industrial Entry in China

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  Wanda Wang

  • steamship
  • industrialization
  • technology diffusion
  • treaty ports
  • China

  Downloads: 6 - Published: 2026-10-20

• Top‑Down Monitoring or Top‑down Encroachment? How Centralized Tax Administration Undermined State Capacity in China

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  Yu Hao; Kevin Zhengcheng Liu

  • state capacity
  • fiscal capacity
  • tax administration
  • taxation
  • China

  Downloads: 11 - Published: 2026-10-20

• The Capacity of Commerce: How the Merchants Shaped Political Resource Distribution during the Taiping Rebellion

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  Heqi Cai

  • commerce
  • civil service exam
  • indirect taxation
  • Taiping Rebellion

  Downloads: 12 - Published: 2026-10-20

• Reason for Treason

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  Xinyu Fan; Gary Richardson; Zhihao Xu; Sicheng Zhao

  • recognition
  • loyalty
  • career incentives
  • World War II
  • foreign influences

  Downloads: 8 - Published: 2026-10-20

• On the Origins of Modern East Asia: Knowledge and the Economic Transformation of Japan and China in the late 19^th century

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  Debin Ma; Jared Rubin; Weiwen Yin

  • propositional knowledge
  • prescriptive knowledge
  • China
  • Japan
  • economic development
  • economic divergence
  • Meiji Reform
  • centralization
  • decentralization

  Downloads: 18 - Published: 2026-10-20

• Media and Cultural Assimilation: Evidence from NHK Radio

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  Xinxian Li

  • media
  • culture
  • language
  • Japan

  Downloads: 8 - Published: 2026-10-20

• The More You Know, the Less You Learn: Information Monitoring and Decision-Making Bias

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  Xiaoming Zhang; Xianqi Cao

  • bureaucracy
  • informational politics
  • decision-making
  • Qing China

  Downloads: 10 - Published: 2026-10-20

• Local Knowledge and State Building: Evidence from Chinese Gazeteers

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  Xinxian Li; Ningxi Liu; Chicheng Ma

  Downloads: 7 - Published: 2026-10-20

• The Economics of Mobilizing Free Riders: Evidence from the Chinese Civil War 1945–1949

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  Peiyuan Li

  • land reform
  • redistribution
  • free rider
  • war mobilization
  • China

  Downloads: 9 - Published: 2026-10-17

• The Paradox of State-Building: Tuition-Free Teachers' Schools and Communist Revolution in Republican China

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  Ningning Ma; Wuyue You

  • state building
  • teachers’ school
  • Chinese Communist Party

  Downloads: 24 - Published: 2026-10-16

• The Intellectual Origin of Legal Institution and Modern Banking

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  Ting Chen; Chong Liu; Shuang Shi; Yuling Zhu

  • court
  • legal talents
  • bank
  • modern China

  Downloads: 21 - Published: 2026-10-15

• States and Wars: China’s Long March Towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC–1911 AD

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  Shuo Chen; Debin Ma

  • Agrarian-nomadic warfare
  • ideology
  • China
  • country size
  • state formation
  • warfare

  Downloads: 12 - Published: 2026-10-14

• Two Millennia of Chinese Economic Growth

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  Runzhuo Zhai; Yuan Gao

  • historical GDP
  • economic growth
  • Malthus
  • unified growth theory

  Downloads: 17 - Published: 2026-10-13

• Political Repression and Nation-building

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  Peiyuan Li

  • political repression
  • newspapers
  • revolution
  • nation-building
  • China

  Downloads: 15 - Published: 2026-10-12

• Telegraph, Media, and State Information Capacity: Evidence from Late Imperial China

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  Yu Hao; Yuxiang Wang

  Downloads: 19 - Published: 2026-10-07

• Matriarch for the Patriarch: Female Regency, Two-Sided Commitment and Political Stability in Historical China

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  Joy Chen; Zhenhuan Lei; Xiuyu Li

  • historical political economy
  • political succession
  • regency
  • autocracy
  • gender

  Downloads: 14 - Published: 2026-10-07

• Knowledge for Lineage: Queen, Keju and Social Mobility in Tang China

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  Shuo Chen; Sijie Hu; Shouying Liu; Zhenxiang Wu

  • institutional transformation
  • Empress Wu
  • keju
  • social mobility
  • marital matching
  • Tang China

  Downloads: 23 - Published: 2026-10-07

• Awakening Latent Human Capital: The Opening-up and Entrepreneurship in 19th-Century China

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  Li Duan; Xiaoming Zhang

  • civil service examinations
  • human capital
  • entrepreneurship
  • bibliometrics
  • treaty ports

  Downloads: 10 - Published: 2026-10-07

• Christian Missionaries and International Trade, 1580–1936

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  Zhiwu Chen; Xinhao Li; Chicheng Ma

  Downloads: 15 - Published: 2026-10-06