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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 273-288, March 2026.Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Fugitive or orphan? The Shanghai yen in the early days of the Sino‐Japanese war, 1938–1939
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 58-80, March 2026.Abstract We explore a phenomenon observed during the Second Sino‐Japanese War in which the value of the yen in Shanghai fell below the official rate. Shanghai provided a parallel market in which yen could be traded indirectly against British pounds through the intermediation of the Chinese yuan.
Shinji Takagi
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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
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Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 410-440, August 2025.Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims.
Jacob Thomas
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Exporting Hyperinflation: The Long Arm of Chiang Kai-shek [PDF]
, 2001 As mainland China's inflationary spiral accelerated in 1947-1949 there was a massive outflow of funds to the island of Taiwan. The exporting of China's hyperinflation was facilitated by the fixed, overvalued, exchange rate between the mainland Chinese ...
Burdekin, Richard C.K. +1 more
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South African Journal of Economics, Volume 93, Issue 2, Page 171-182, June 2025.ABSTRACT Rwanda is among the fastest‐growing economies in Sub‐Saharan Africa, often discussed in the context of a ‘development state’. This paper examines whether Rwanda can be classified as a ‘developmental dictatorship’, a term closely associated with South Korea. It compares Rwanda's development under Paul Kagame (2000–2024) with South Korea's under
Ralph Wrobel
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Wartime China’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression: Changing Interpretations and Perspectives [PDF]
, 2010 In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and established the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeast China. Hoping to avoid an all-out war with Japan, China pursued a policy of appeasement and did not resist the occupation of China.
Fortin, Jason, Pagliarini, Tom
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Monolithic Chinese political culture?: A cross‐regional exploration
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 5, Page 1457-1473, September 2024.Abstract Objective This article explores whether authoritarian China has a monolithic political culture, or rather a set of somewhat different political cultures across a number of regions. Method On the basis of several criteria we deem particularly important for identifying regions within which development, communication, and socialization of ...
Robert Harmel +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2024.Abstract This paper emerged from a sore spot—the kind of sore spot that pulses with an ancient ache, refusing to find stillness. The pain caught me in a passionate unrest, turning my pages and engulfing me in a subdued fury. Re‐reading Freud's The Ego and the Id through a dialogical quest with my mother, it reveals the complexities of psychosocial ...
Nini Kerr
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From traitor to martyr: drawing lessons from the death and burial of Wang Jingwei, 1944 [PDF]
, 2018 Based on recently re-opened files and publications in Nanjing, as well as published and newsreel accounts from the 1940s, this paper represents the first scholarly analysis of the rituals surrounding the death and burial of Wang Jingwei in Japanese ...
Anqing +32 more
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