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Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
CITIC Press · 2013
From the 1820s to the 1960s, a small number of countries—the United States, Britain, Germany, and others—experienced economic prosperity unprecedented…
Hidden Rules: The Real Game in Chinese History
Fudan University Press · 2009
First published in 2001 by Yunnan People's Publishing House and reissued in a revised edition by Fudan University Press in 2009, this is the book that…
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2014
This book tells the story of a "sorcery scare in an age of prosperity." The Qianlong Emperor, who reigned for more than sixty years, brought the Great…
1587, A Year of No Significance
Zhonghua Book Company · 2006
The year 1587, the fifteenth year of the Wanli reign, seems unremarkable in Chinese history: no great wars, no great changes, and historical records o…
A Study of the Political History of the Guge Kingdom, 10th–13th Centuries
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2021
The Guge Kingdom was a regime that arose in the Ngari region of western Tibet after the 10th century and is regarded as a key link in Tibetan history …
Genghis Khan: Stronger Than Force Was His Cohesion
People's Daily Press · 2019
This book is by the American anthropologist and Mongol-Yuan historian Jack Weatherford. Its original English title is Genghis Khan and the Quest for G…
Games—Structural Functionalism: An Exploration of the Basic Functional Mechanisms of a Harmonious Society
China Renmin University Press · 2012
This book uses "games—structural functionalism" as its theoretical framework, attempting to combine the micro-level behavioral analysis of game theory…
Between Ruler and Minister: Emperors and Factions in the Qing Dynasty
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
This book focuses on the Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng reigns of the Qing dynasty, tracing the rise and fall of factional groups and combining specif…
China's "De Facto Federalism": Reform and Dynamics of Central-Local Relations
Oriental Press · 2013
This book is Zheng Yongnian's first systematic attempt to conceptualize central-local relations from the perspective of behavioral patterns; the origi…
Blood Reward Law: Survival Games in Chinese History
Yuwen Publishing House · 2009
Blood Reward Law: Survival Games in Chinese History is Wu Si's follow-up to his earlier book, Hidden Rules: Real Games in Chinese History. It was firs…
New Institutional Economics (Third Edition)
Peking University Press · 2021
This book is the third edition of New Institutional Economics, edited by Lu Xianxiang and Zhu Qiaoling. It is listed as a national planning textbook f…
History Is Not Muddy: China's Political Tradition through Tang Dynasty Figures
CITIC Press · 2016
History Is Not Muddy: China's Political Tradition through Tang Dynasty Figures is a collection of historical essays by Li Zheng, an author born in the…
Economic Behavior and Institutions
The Commercial Press · 2004
This book is the magnum opus of the Icelandic scholar Thráinn Eggertsson. The earliest Chinese translation was published by the Commercial Press in 19…
1587, A Year of No Significance
Zhonghua Book Company · 2006
1587, A Year of No Significance is the breakthrough and representative work of Chinese American historian Ray Huang. Originally published in English a…
An Analysis of the System of the Litigant's Right to Question
Xinhua Publishing House · 2026
In court, a party's questioning may be called the right to question. This book is a rare careful work on parties' rights and the right to question in …
A Study on the Impact of China's Decentralized Governance Model on the Implementation Effects of Industrial Policy
Peking University Press · 2025
Starting from the premise that "implementing industrial policy is practically reasonable" for developing countries, this book examines how China's-sty…
The Ten-Year War
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024
The Ten-Year War is the most authoritative account and discussion of America's battle over "Obamacare." Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care A…
The Flowing Forest: A History of the Qing Dynasty Market Economy
Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2024
Rafts drift downstream one after another, carrying timber from the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze to towns in the lower reaches. Forest farme…
The Iron Law of Oligarchy: The Sociology of Political Parties in Modern Democratic Systems
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2022
This book is Robert Michels's masterpiece. By studying the development of European political parties, especially the German Social Democratic Party, a…
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Expanded Edition)
· 2022
After Hegemony is a comprehensive study of cooperation among advanced capitalist states. Can cooperation be sustained without a single dominant power …