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Local Knowledge and State Building: Evidence from Chinese Gazeteers
Xinxian Li; Ningxi Liu; Chicheng Ma
Downloads: 7
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Published: 2026-10-20
Christian Missionaries and International Trade, 1580–1936
Zhiwu Chen; Xinhao Li; Chicheng Ma
Downloads: 15
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Debin Ma; Jared Rubin; Weiwen Yin
propositional knowledge
prescriptive knowledge
China
Japan
economic development
economic divergence
Meiji Reform
centralization
decentralization
Downloads: 18
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Published: 2026-10-20
Two Millennia of Chinese Economic Growth
Runzhuo Zhai; Yuan Gao
historical GDP
economic growth
Malthus
unified growth theory
Downloads: 17
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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
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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
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Published: 2026-10-07
Political Repression and Nation-building
Peiyuan Li
political repression
newspapers
revolution
nation-building
China
Downloads: 15
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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
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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
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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
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Published: 2026-10-20
Media and Cultural Assimilation: Evidence from NHK Radio
Xinxian Li
media
culture
language
Japan
Downloads: 8
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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
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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
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Published: 2026-10-17
Telegraph, Media, and State Information Capacity: Evidence from Late Imperial China
Yu Hao; Yuxiang Wang
Downloads: 19
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Published: 2026-10-07
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