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Divided We Stand, United We Fall: The Hume-Weber-Jones Mechanism for the Rise of Europe [PDF]

open access: yes
The "great divergence" in incomes between Europe and the rest of the world occurred relatively recently. Why was it that Western Europe, once a backward outpost on the fringes of the Eurasian continent, able to dominate in terms of income and technology ...
Cem Karayalcin
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Goddess unbound: Chinese popular religion and the varieties of boundary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Mazu is an important deity who spread widely within and beyond China. The hardening of internal and external boundaries during the Cold War greatly limited the flow of the cult on the mainland, and completely cut the tie to temples in Taiwan and abroad ...
Weller, Robert P.
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Producing space, producing China : a critical intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The concepts of the production and representation of space and place are receiving an increasing amount of attention in both the humanities and the social sciences.
Nieuwenhuis, Marijn
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Public Finance in China since the Late Qing Dynasty [PDF]

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How is "public finance" organized in China? Is China’s public finance system different from that of other countries? Can we detect features which link today’s system to the past?Public finance refers to more than annual state budgets and ...
Krug, B.
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The Policy of the Russian State on the Governance of Nomadic Peoples in the First Half of the XIX Century (the Case Study of Kalmyks)

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with the policy of the Russian state on the governance of Kalmyks in the first half of the XIXth century. After the departure of the most part of the Kalmyk people to the territory of Qing China, the status of its statehood was ...
M. .. Goryaev, A. .. Komandzhaev
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Building Fukan as a Chinese Public Sphere: Zhang Dongsun and Learning Light [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article attempts to explore the relevance of the public sphere, conceptualized by Jürgen Habermas, in the Chinese context. The author focuses on the case of Learning Light (Xuedeng), one of the most reputable fukans, or newspaper supplements, of the
Gao, Nuan
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