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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi, David Chilosi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 359-367, April 2026.
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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Verbal and Visual-Figurative Clichés in the Representation of China in Connection with the Boxer Rebellion: Mandarin, Anthropomorphic “Titbid”, Frozen Empire [PDF]

Телекинет
The article analyzes the verbal and visual-figurative representations of China in magazines of the Russian Empire in 1898–1901. The author focuses on texts and images that became a reflection or reaction to the Boxer Rebellion, the main event included ...
Zakharchuk, V. V
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Evolution of the Image of China on the Pages of the Magazine “Mir Bozhiy” at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
The article examines the reflection of the image of China and the Chinese on the pages of the magazine “Mir Bozhiy” at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dmitry V. Mikheev
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Economic trends in Qing China: A response to Rawski's bold claims

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 99-116, March 2026.
Abstract Thomas Rawski challenges recent quantitative studies that find declining Chinese GDP per capita during 1700–1850 and suggests that the error margins around the component series for per capita grain supply should be widened, which would make it possible to accommodate stagnation, growth or decline.
Stephen Broadberry, Hanhui Guan, David Daokui Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 3-30, February 2026.
Abstract Evidence on by‐employment in long‐run economic development is limited in existing literature worldwide. This study constructed a new dataset comprising 74 515 occupational observations with 4890 by‐employed individuals derived from Chinese lineage genealogies.
Ying Dai
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Structure of Settlements in Mainland China in the Early 20th Century

Land
Settlements and settlement systems are key arenas of human–environment interaction, and reconstructing their spatial patterns is essential for understanding historical socio-environmental dynamics.
Raorao Su, Zhen Zhao
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Characteristics of Yoshikazu Uchida Et al.'s Settlement Plan for Agricultural Migrants to Manchuria: Comparison With Other Plans and an Examination of the Study Group's Planning Process

JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.
This study aimed to identify the characteristics of the settlement plan for agricultural migrants to Manchuria published by Yoshikazu Uchida and his colleagues in March 1933 by comparing it with agricultural immigration plans from the same period and elucidating Uchida et al.'s planning process. ABSTRACT This study aimed to identify the characteristics
Takaaki Nakagawa
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LEGAL REALITIES OF MONGOLIA IN 18th - FIRST HALF OF 19th c. AS SEEN BY RUSSIAN TRAVELERS (ATTEMPT OF ANALYSIS FORM LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY POINT OF VIEW)

RUDN Journal of Law, 2019
The article is devoted to analysis of notes of Russian travelers to Mongolia as a source on legal situation in this country during 18th - first half of 19th c. Until now these texts were used mainly as a source on political or economic history as well as
Roman Yu. Pochekaev
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