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China's minorities : integration and modernization in the twentieth century

Colin Mackerras
- 01 Jul 1998 - 
- Vol. 53, Iss: 4, pp 875
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This article is published in Population.The article was published on 1998-07-01. It has received 85 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Modernization theory & China.

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Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China

TL;DR: Using a new biographical database of Central Committee members, a previously overlooked feature of CCP reporting, and a novel Bayesian method that can estimate individual-level correlates of partially observed ranks, the authors found no evidence that strong growth performance was rewarded with higher party ranks at any of the postreform party congresses.
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Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History

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China’s Western Development Program: Its Rationale, Implementation, and Prospects

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Staged Development in Xinjiang

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Educational stratification by ethnicity in China: Enrollment and attainment in the early reform years

TL;DR: Using evidence about educational disparities, this article demonstrates the need for attention to minority populations in studies of social stratification in China and stresses the continuing significance of ethnicity as a fundamental factor that conditions status attainment opportunities in China.