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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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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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The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity
TL;DR: The authors argued that the revisionist position is both empirically suspect and analytically incoherent, and affirmed the explanatory principles of path-dependent historical trajectories and the pervasive structural integration of social formations.
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The Architecture of Control: a Chinese Strategy for e-Governance
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the critical administrative and political problems facing the government, demonstrates ways in which e-government has been designed to meet these, and discusses the problems presented by a reliance on eGovernment in a developing country.
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Rethinking global governance: a China model in the making?
TL;DR: The authors examines Chinese perspectives on global governance, an area in which China has increased substantially the depth and breadth of its participation, and attempts to draw a mainstream perspective to inform our understanding of some key aspects of China's foreign policy.
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Nation-Building through War
TL;DR: This article proposed a second image reversed theory of war that links structural variables, power politics, and the individuals that constitute states, and used the case of German unification after the Franco-Prussian war to demonstrate the interaction between social identification, nationalism, state-building and the power politics of interstate war.