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Institutionalisation and Institutional Evolution: A Model of Selecting Government Officials in Ancient China

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The evolution of institutions in selecting government officials in ancient China reflected efficiency considerations and increased power concentration in the hands of the ruler. Selecting government officials in ancient China became more rule‐based over time, and standardisation and centralisation were some key features of this process.
Haiwen Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon in Raptors and Other Captive Birds at the National Zoological Garden in South Africa

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 203-213, January 2026.
Captive birds at the National Zoological Garden in South Africa harbor diverse haemosporidian parasite species and lineages. This might compromise conservation efforts of threatened species. ABSTRACT Avian haemosporidian infections have been associated with disease outbreaks in zoos and rehabilitation centers globally. This study aimed to determine the
Realeboga Masego Gaorekwe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
core   +2 more sources

Securitised Exit and Passport Regimes in South Korea: Law, Politics and Jurisdiction

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT By tracing the development of South Korea's legal‐passport regimes within the historical and geopolitical settings, this paper examines how exit restrictions have been securitised through their interplay with inter‐Korean dynamics and state relations.
Jeewon Min
wiley   +1 more source

Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers NO. 19 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
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Dvornik, Francis
core   +1 more source

Passing on the red genes: Communism nostalgia in online fictions and ideological governance in China

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 119-133, January 2026.
Abstract How does communism as an ideology fare in the post‐reform digital age China? What are the implications for China's ideological governance? Through online ethnographic work and text analysis, this paper identifies and analyzes how communism as an ideation and a practice is (re)memorized, (re)presented, and (re)interpreted in popular online ...
Rongbin Han
wiley   +1 more source

Tamgha and the Struggle against It: On the History of Medieval Turkic-mongol Taxation System [PDF]

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2014
The paper deals with the Turkic-Mongol taxation institute of tamgha widely used in the Mongol Empire since the first half of the 13th century. Author characterizes the etymology of this term, its meanings, legal regulation of levy and rates, evolution of
R.Yu. Pochekaev
doaj  

Buqa Chīngsāng: Protagonist of Qubilai Khan’s Unsuccessful Coup Attempt against the Hülegüid Dynasty

open access: yesBelleten, 2017
The study examines the coup attempt orchestrated by Qubilai Khan (1260–94), who desired to re-establish the ‘Yeke Mongol Ulus’ and to unify the separated Mongol khanates under the authority of the Yuan Empire.
Mustafa Uyar
doaj   +1 more source

Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
International audienceThis paper points out the break of the traditionnal administrative patterns from dure Gret' Khans period to the fall of the Persian Ilkhanate in 1355. Previously, financial and secretarial offices had been handed down, to generation,
Aigle, Denise
core   +2 more sources

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