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Author:   George Hong Jiang
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.601kg
ISBN:  

9783031270147

ISBN 10:   3031270142
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   08 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Part I. Origins 1.- Introduction  2.- A Historical Pattern: The Imperial Mode of China  3.- The Empire-building in the Pre-Qin Period  4.- Ideas Matter: Profound Thought in the Pre-Qin Period  Part II. Trajectories.- 5. Adolescence of the Imperial Mode  6.- Maturity: The Tang-Song Transition  7.- Mismatch: The Ossifying Institutions  8.- Beginning Modernization: The Late Qing and the Republican Period  9.- Zigzag Modernization in Communist China  Part III. ""Aufheben"".- 10. The Rise of the West: What Happened and How  11.- China’s “Peculiarities”: Why China Declined and Rebounded  12.- To Understand China: The Past and the Future."

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George Hong Jiang is an assistant researcher in the School of Economics at Peking University and also a visiting researcher in the Max Weber Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg Universität. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He got a doctoral degree in macroeconomics at the Department of Economic Policy and Quantitative Methods, J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt.

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