The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the
formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth …

Twentieth century China has seen local societies undergo unprecedented transformations
accompanied by a remarkable continuity in state practice. In this path-breaking study of two …

The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in
research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing …

The year 1949 no longer marks an insuperable divide separating one field of history from
another, or separating history from other disciplines at a point marking the founding of the …

This dissertation examines three waves of ethnic minority representation in post-1949
China. Reading ethnic representation as a discursive site where historical imperatives and …

From the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Chinese Communist
movement in the twentieth, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military …

The devolution of power to local elites in the nineteenth century China is commonly traced to
the period of the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century. My dissertation reveals …

For many years historians of the middle period of Chinese history—roughly from mid-eighth
century into the fifteenth century—found considerable appeal in the idea that the Tang-Song …

China is a site for the evolution, not only of Chinese nationalism, but the nationalism of
various non-Han ethnic groups. During the 20th century, these ethnic groups constructed …

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political
developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West still largely overlooks or oversimplifies …