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  • Local Knowledge and State Building: Evidence from Chinese Gazeteers

    Xinxian Li; Ningxi Liu; Chicheng Ma
    Downloads: 7 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • Christian Missionaries and International Trade, 1580–1936

    Zhiwu Chen; Xinhao Li; Chicheng Ma
    Downloads: 15 - Published: 2026-10-06
  • Reason for Treason

    Xinyu Fan; Gary Richardson; Zhihao Xu; Sicheng Zhao
    • recognition
    • loyalty
    • career incentives
    • World War II
    • foreign influences
    Downloads: 8 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • States and Wars: China’s Long March Towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC–1911 AD

    Shuo Chen; Debin Ma
    • Agrarian-nomadic warfare
    • ideology
    • China
    • country size
    • state formation
    • warfare
    Downloads: 12 - Published: 2026-10-14
  • The Intellectual Origin of Legal Institution and Modern Banking

    Ting Chen; Chong Liu; Shuang Shi; Yuling Zhu
    • court
    • legal talents
    • bank
    • modern China
    Downloads: 21 - Published: 2026-10-15
  • Steam Beyond the Gateways: Steamship Connectivity and Industrial Entry in China

    Wanda Wang
    • steamship
    • industrialization
    • technology diffusion
    • treaty ports
    • China
    Downloads: 6 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • The Capacity of Commerce: How the Merchants Shaped Political Resource Distribution during the Taiping Rebellion

    Heqi Cai
    • commerce
    • civil service exam
    • indirect taxation
    • Taiping Rebellion
    Downloads: 12 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • On the Origins of Modern East Asia: Knowledge and the Economic Transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century

    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
  • Two Millennia of Chinese Economic Growth

    Runzhuo Zhai; Yuan Gao
    • historical GDP
    • economic growth
    • Malthus
    • unified growth theory
    Downloads: 17 - Published: 2026-10-13
  • Matriarch for the Patriarch: Female Regency, Two-Sided Commitment and Political Stability in Historical China

    Joy Chen; Zhenhuan Lei; Xiuyu Li
    • historical political economy
    • political succession
    • regency
    • autocracy
    • gender
    Downloads: 14 - Published: 2026-10-07
  • Awakening Latent Human Capital: The Opening-up and Entrepreneurship in 19th-Century China

    Li Duan; Xiaoming Zhang
    • civil service examinations
    • human capital
    • entrepreneurship
    • bibliometrics
    • treaty ports
    Downloads: 10 - Published: 2026-10-07
  • Political Repression and Nation-building

    Peiyuan Li
    • political repression
    • newspapers
    • revolution
    • nation-building
    • China
    Downloads: 15 - Published: 2026-10-12
  • The Paradox of State-Building: Tuition-Free Teachers' Schools and Communist Revolution in Republican China

    Ningning Ma; Wuyue You
    • state building
    • teachers’ school
    • Chinese Communist Party
    Downloads: 24 - Published: 2026-10-16
  • Knowledge for Lineage: Queen, Keju and Social Mobility in Tang China

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

    Xiaoming Zhang; Xianqi Cao
    • bureaucracy
    • informational politics
    • decision-making
    • Qing China
    Downloads: 10 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • Media and Cultural Assimilation: Evidence from NHK Radio

    Xinxian Li
    • media
    • culture
    • language
    • Japan
    Downloads: 8 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • Top‑Down Monitoring or Top‑down Encroachment? How Centralized Tax Administration Undermined State Capacity in China

    Yu Hao; Kevin Zhengcheng Liu
    • state capacity
    • fiscal capacity
    • tax administration
    • taxation
    • China
    Downloads: 11 - Published: 2026-10-20
  • The Economics of Mobilizing Free Riders: Evidence from the Chinese Civil War 1945–1949

    Peiyuan Li
    • land reform
    • redistribution
    • free rider
    • war mobilization
    • China
    Downloads: 9 - Published: 2026-10-17
  • Telegraph, Media, and State Information Capacity: Evidence from Late Imperial China

    Yu Hao; Yuxiang Wang
    Downloads: 19 - Published: 2026-10-07
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