… by professional associations, intellectuals, settlers, or medical personnel in shaping
governmental policies, authors in this volume suggest that a comprehensive picture of Chinese state …

… For example, Zuozhuan (左传 The Spring and Autumn Annals, 770–476BC), one of China’s
oldest historical chronicles, states: “those from outside our clan must have a different mind (…

… Others lay the blame at the feet of the Chinese state. Scholars such as Karl Wittfogel outlined
the inhibitory effects of despotic rule on development, while Joseph Levenson and Mary …

… The notion of real estate–driven development in the UK bears some similarity with the
Chinese state in that not only has real estate development become an important sector driving …

… showing up, over sixty countries signing onto China’s effort, ancient trade routes being …
Chinese state media tout. They saw maps of new economic corridors running outward from China…

… Surnaming practices may reflect state policy and social actors’ responses to state initiatives;
indeed, as we will see, surnaming practices are family strategies of social and economic …

… 1949— was fundamentally incompatible with the Partystate’s imperative to remake the
economic and social basis of the Chinese countryside. Land reform violence could be harnessed …

… United States have behaved more like revisionist states than China. … whereby China is typically
labeled as a “revisionist” state even … Westphalian principles of state sovereignty and non- …

… As the Chinese state has progressively given up its planning and directing role, whilst …
wishes to transform the global order or wishes to remake itFootnote 62 need to answer the …

… Transplanting what it perceived to be the street-side café style of European towns, the
local state further invested 2 million yuan to remake a dilapidated lane into a pedestrian area. …