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Peter C. Perdue.China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.:China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 2006-04-01. It has received 136 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: China.read more
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Chinese Narratives on “One Belt, One Road” (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts
James D. Sidaway,Chih Yuan Woon +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed Chinese-language writings on the ideas of a Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road that have proliferated in the last few years, now under the aegis of and visualized a...
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Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
TL;DR: Critical Han Studies as mentioned in this paper is a collection of trenchant, penetrating essays interrogating what it means to be "Han" in China, both historically and today, both by examining the social construction of hierarchy and in-group favoritism.
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Warfare and the Evolution of Social Complexity: A Multilevel-Selection Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply multilevel selection to a major transition in human social evolution, from small-scale egalitarian groups to large-scale hierarchical societies such as states and empires.
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Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model of the tournament shows why it led European rulers to spend heavily on improving the gunpowder technology, and why political incentives and military conditions kept such a tournament from developing elsewhere in the world.
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A ‘Confucian Long Peace’ in Pre-Western East Asia?
TL;DR: This article investigated whether such a cultural peace did in fact exist, and whether this might be attributed to Confucianism and found that the last Chinese (Qing) dynasty before the Western arrival (1644-1839) demonstrates that it was remarkably peaceful toward its confucian neighbors, while more 'normally' exploiting its power asymmetry against non-Confucian ones.
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Chinese Narratives on “One Belt, One Road” (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts
James D. Sidaway,Chih Yuan Woon +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed Chinese-language writings on the ideas of a Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road that have proliferated in the last few years, now under the aegis of and visualized a...
Book
Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
TL;DR: Critical Han Studies as mentioned in this paper is a collection of trenchant, penetrating essays interrogating what it means to be "Han" in China, both historically and today, both by examining the social construction of hierarchy and in-group favoritism.
Journal ArticleDOI
Warfare and the Evolution of Social Complexity: A Multilevel-Selection Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply multilevel selection to a major transition in human social evolution, from small-scale egalitarian groups to large-scale hierarchical societies such as states and empires.
Journal ArticleDOI
Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model of the tournament shows why it led European rulers to spend heavily on improving the gunpowder technology, and why political incentives and military conditions kept such a tournament from developing elsewhere in the world.
Posted Content
A ‘Confucian Long Peace’ in Pre-Western East Asia?
TL;DR: This article investigated whether such a cultural peace did in fact exist, and whether this might be attributed to Confucianism and found that the last Chinese (Qing) dynasty before the Western arrival (1644-1839) demonstrates that it was remarkably peaceful toward its confucian neighbors, while more 'normally' exploiting its power asymmetry against non-Confucian ones.