Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937 0415933889, 9780415933889

Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State 9780292796874

According to conventional wisdom, the national identity of the Jordanian state was defined by the ruling Hashemite famil

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The river, the plain, and the state: an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 9781316723418, 1316723410, 9781107155985, 1107155983

On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turnin

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The Other Side of the River : Red China Today

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Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution 9780804779319

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to lo

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Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution [1 ed.] 9780804726597, 0804726590

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to lo

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Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China 1107021316, 9781107021310

Received wisdom suggests that social organizations (such as non-government organizations, NGOs) have the power to upend

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Community Schools and the State in Ming China 9781503625242

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China 9781503626812

Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to authoritarian China? This stu

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Red China Today : The Other Side of the River

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The Establishment and Reconstruction of the Academician System in China 9811572070, 9789811572074

This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and t

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