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Architectural Heritage Analysis of the Yuanying Guan Pavilion: Construction and Signification

Heritage, 2023
This paper aims to analyse the structural function and symbolic function of the historic building Yuan Guan during the inculturation process in the early Qing dynasty in China. This process was the dominant Western practice during the early Qing dynasty,
Manuel V. Castilla
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From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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The spatial reconstruction of 5′ × 5′ cultivated land cover in the three provinces of Northeast China in the Qing Dynasty based on historical settlements and reclamation sites

Environmental Research Communications
Improving the gridded reconstruction method of cultivated land is a core issue and difficulty in current research on historical Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC).
Yu Ye, Yuting Liu, Lin Lou, Ling Hu, Xuezhen Zhang, Zhilei Wu   +5 more
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From Xia People to Han People and to Chinese Nation — A Study of the Trajectory of the Cohesion and Integration of Chinese Ethnic Groups

Contemporary Social Sciences, 2019
Building multiethnic China was primarily driven by the cohesion and integration of main ethnic groups within Chinese territory, but the process was recorded according to traditional ethnic group discourse system of ancient China, so there is some ...
Li Dalong, Zhang Qiuyue
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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Translating official documents: an art of governance by translation in the Qing dynasty

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
State governance is, in many ways, a discursive practice that relies on the creation, translation, and transmission of governance-oriented texts. The act of governance by translation typically occurs in multi-ethnic, multilingual, and unified political ...
Yuxia Gao, Dongsheng Ren, Riccardo Moratto   +2 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Inheritance of ancestral worship and/or properties the application of the classical Chinese Language in the case of Liu Ying Lan [PDF]

, 2014
The Chinese clan is a patriarchal one, and the traditional law and ethic of China are to safeguard the patriarchal society as such. As a traditional code of laws, the Qing Code (Ta Ching Lu Li) definitely defends the moral value of the concepts of ...
Soo, YC
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Regional impacts of international tourism boycott: A China—Japan conflict

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the regional impacts of the Sino–Japan dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands that sparked a Chinese consumer boycott of travel to Japan from August 2012. This boycott caused significant and varied regional impacts across Japan.
Theresa M. Greaney, Kozo Kiyota
wiley   +1 more source