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The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1986-09-01. It has received 198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peasant & Social change.read more
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A Risk Society
TL;DR: The concept of risk society was first introduced by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck in Risk Society in 1986 as discussed by the authors, where he argued that the modern society had deviated from (Karl Marx's) class society or (Max Weber's) industrial society and had developed into a social form that is highly modern, known as risk society.
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Chinese economic performance in the long run
TL;DR: This paper used a comparative approach to explain why China's role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years and concluded that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world's largest economy by 2015, thus regaining the position it had held until the end of the nineteenth century.
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Companion to Historiography
TL;DR: The Project of Historiography as discussed by the authors ) is a project dedicated to the preservation and preservation of the history of the East and the West of the Middle Ages and the early modern world.
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Development or involution in eighteenth-century Britain and China? A review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
TL;DR: Pomeranz as mentioned in this paper argues that the divergence between development and involution in Europe and China did not occur until after 1800, mainly because of the lucky availability of coal resources for England, and also of other raw materials from the New World.
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Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China
TL;DR: Most previous scholarship about the civil service examination system in imperial China has emphasized the degree of social mobility such examinations permitted in a premodern society as discussed by the authors, but these a priori judgments are often expressed teleologically when tied to the "modernization narrative" that still pervades our historiography of Ming (1368-1644) and Ch'ing (1644-1911) dynasty China.
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The Rationale of Korean Economic Nationalism Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1922–1932: The Case of Cho Man-sik's Products Promotion Society
TL;DR: The economic viability of economic nationalism under colonial occupation was examined in this paper, where the basic perceptions of nationalists inside Korea who responded to the plight of their colonially oppressed nation were examined.