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The search for modern China
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The authors explored the history of early-modern and modern China, from the seventeenth century to the present, examining the rise and fall of China's last empire, the emergence of a modern nation-state, the sources and development of revolution, and the implications of complex social, political, cultural, and economic transformations in the People's Republic of China.Abstract:
This course explores the history of early-modern and modern China, from the seventeenth century to the present. We will examine the rise and fall of China’s last empire, the emergence of a modern nation-state, the sources and development of revolution, and the implications of complex social, political, cultural, and economic transformations in the People’s Republic of China. Course materials include scholarly monographs, a memoir, primary sources, and visual and material artifacts that offer diverse perspectives. We will meet twice a week for a combination of lectures, discussion, and viewing of visual texts.read more
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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth was investigated, and it was shown that proximity to a transportation network has a moderate positive causal effect on per capita GDP levels across sectors, but no effect on overall GDP growth.
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Primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, accumulation by ‘extra-economic’ means
TL;DR: The authors review recent uses and transformations of the primitive accumulation that focus on its persistence within the Global North, addressing especially the political implications that attend different readings of primitive accumulation in the era of neoliberal globalization.
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International Migration as a Tool in Development Policy: A Passing Phase?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the recent rise of migration and development as a major area of policy concern and cautions against essentializing migration and placing too great a responsibility upon migrant agency at the expense of the institutional change necessary to bring about development.
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The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth
TL;DR: The intellectual origins of the Industrial Revolution are traced back to the Baconian program of the seventeenth century, which aimed at expanding the set of useful knowledge and applying natural philosophy to solve technological problems and bring about economic growth as mentioned in this paper.
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Bodhisattva Precepts in the Ming Society: Factors Behind Their Success and Propagation
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the propagation of the same apocryphal precepts in Japan, which could also be explained by comparable conditions in political and technological infrastructure, and takes a cultural comparativist perspective.
Marshall Blinks: Operational Art and Strategic Vision
TL;DR: The authors examines General George C. Marshall's reasoning from the operational perspective and finds that Marshall's decision to cease American involvement in China hinged primarily on operational factors rather than strategic, and surveys the lessons Marshall learned in China as a lieutenant colonel from 1924 to 1927 in terms of mission, enemy, terrain, troops available, civilian considerations and time and looks to how he applied these lessons during his assigned mission from 1946 to 1947.
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Romantic Relationships and Urban Modernity in the Writings of Han Bangqing and Zhang Ailing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a series of illustrative images: http://www.bloomberg.edu.edu/gallery/images/gallery.cfcfcfm
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Work Ethics and Work Valuations in a Period of Commercialization: Ming China, 1500–1644
TL;DR: This article explored Confucian tenets that made a distinction between mental and physical work, and between four main occupational groups during the Ming period, and found direct and indirect evidence of the commodification of work in cities and in the countryside, and of gendered division of labour.
Wei Yuan and the Chinese Totalistic Iconoclasm: The Demise of Confucianism in Matter and in Form
TL;DR: This article explored the historical origins of the "totalistic iconoclasm" characteristic of Chinese intellectual history in the twentieth century, arguing that the conceptual connection between the civilization of the majority Han ethnicity (the Chinese tradition) and the idea of a political entity of China had already broken down by mid-nineteenth century.