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  • The Political Economy of China's Imperial Examination System

    by Erik H. Wang, Clair Z. Yang ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    Just as councils and assemblies were central to European polities for centuries, the Imperial Examination System (Keju) constituted the cornerstone of state institutions in China. This Element argues that Keju contributed to political stability, and its emergence was a process, not a shock, with consequences initially unanticipated by its contemporaries. The Element documents the emergence of Keju ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of the EAST

    How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

    by Yasheng Huang, Ph.D. ...
    The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance“Riveting.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street JournalA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Two Paths to Prosperity

    Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

    by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini ...
    How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The New Emperors

    Power and the Princelings in China

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Emperors, the noted China expert Kerry Brown journeys deep into the heart of the secretive Communist Party. China's ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rome and China

    Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Imperial China

    The Social Origins of State Development

    by Yuhua Wang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Everlasting Empire

    The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy

    by Yuri Pines ...
    Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire traces the roots of the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors

    Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800

    by Jonathan Karam Skaff ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Global History with Chinese Characteristics

    Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

    by Manuel Perez-Garcia ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of ... Read more

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  • China's Last Empire

    The Great Qing

    by William T. Rowe, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 6 - History of Imperial China
    In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Chinese State in Ming Society

    by Timothy Brook ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship. It argues that, contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Protest with Chinese Characteristics

    Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.Hung samples from mid ... Read more

    $30.99 USD