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
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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43
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
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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
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Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]
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
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Securitised Exit and Passport Regimes in South Korea: Law, Politics and Jurisdiction
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
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Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers NO. 19 [PDF]
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Dvornik, Francis
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Passing on the red genes: Communism nostalgia in online fictions and ideological governance in China
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
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Tamgha and the Struggle against It: On the History of Medieval Turkic-mongol Taxation System [PDF]
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
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Buqa Chīngsāng: Protagonist of Qubilai Khan’s Unsuccessful Coup Attempt against the Hülegüid Dynasty
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
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Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]
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
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