Institutional History

130 books

Between Civil and Military: A Study of the Military Selection Officials of the Northern Song cover
Rating 4.5
Between Civil and Military: A Study of the Military Selection Officials of the Northern Song Zhao Dongmei Peking University Press · 2010 Between Civil and Military: A Study of the Military Selection Officials of the Northern Song is a representative monograph by Zhao Dongmei, professor …
A Brief History of the Tax and Corvée System cover
A Brief History of the Tax and Corvée System 徐东升 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2011 A Brief History of the Tax and Corvée System is an accessible work on institutional history by Professor Xu Dongsheng of the Department of History at …
Friends, Guests, and Colleagues: The Mu-Fu System of the Late Qing cover
Friends, Guests, and Colleagues: The Mu-Fu System of the Late Qing K. E. Folsom China Social Sciences Press · 2002 The Book
Understanding the Third Reich Through These Books cover
Rating 4.2
Understanding the Third Reich Through These Books 齐格蒙特·鲍曼 / Sebastian Haffner / Frank Bajohr / 拉莱·科林斯 / 多米尼克·拉皮埃尔 / Klaus Fischer / Hannah Arendt / William L. Shirer Yilin Press · 2017 Understanding the Third Reich Through These Books is a collection of classic works on the Third Reich published by Yilin Press. An eight-volume set wa…
Administrative Governance in the Borderlands: A Reexamination of the Ting System in the Qing Dynasty cover
Administrative Governance in the Borderlands: A Reexamination of the Ting System in the Qing Dynasty 胡恒 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2022 The ting was a form of administrative division unique to the Qing dynasty. Its establishment and evolution reflect the transformation of local adminis…
Lü Simian on Chinese History: A Classic That Gets to the Bone of Chinese History cover
Lü Simian on Chinese History: A Classic That Gets to the Bone of Chinese History Lü Simian Wuhan Publishing House · 2012 Originally titled Lü's General History of China, this is another general history by Lü Simian after his Vernacular General History of China, and the o…
From Mufti to Official: The Transformation of Provincial Administration in Late Qing China cover
Rating 4.0
From Mufti to Official: The Transformation of Provincial Administration in Late Qing China 关晓红 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014 This book is a monograph by Guan Xiaohong, professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University, on the reform of provincial administration in the late Qing…
A History of Chinese Institutions (Volumes I & II) cover
Rating 4.4
A History of Chinese Institutions (Volumes I & II) Lü Simian Shanghai Educational Publishing House · 2002 A History of Chinese Institutions is a specialized historical work to which Lü Simian (1884–1957) devoted exceptional effort. Originally titled A Soci…
Song Huiyao Jigao cover
Song Huiyao Jigao 徐松 / Liu Lin / Diao Zhongmin / 舒大刚 / Yin Bo Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2014 Song Huiyao Jigao
From Liu Bang to Wang Mang: Reform and Regression Across the Ages cover
From Liu Bang to Wang Mang: Reform and Regression Across the Ages 谌旭彬 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Following The Two-Thousand-Year Legacy of Qin Institutions, historian Chen Xubin turns to the Western Han in this new study, retelling the repeated sh…
Jade Culture in China cover
Jade Culture in China Yao Shiqi China International Broadcasting Publishing House · 2010 Jade Culture in China is one of the titles in the "China Reader" series from China International Radio Press, written by Yao Shiqi, a longtime researc…
The Ming Storm: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty cover
The Ming Storm: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty An Zhen Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2021 The Ming Storm: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty is a general history of the Ming dynasty by the historian An Zhen, published in 202…
Boya Yinghua Series—Classic Collection of Chinese Social Science Masters (24 Volumes) cover
Boya Yinghua Series—Classic Collection of Chinese Social Science Masters (24 Volumes) Chen Lai / 余敦康 / 田余庆 / 祝总斌 / 阎步克 / Zhao Yuan / 汤用彤 / Tang Yijie / Yuan Xingpei / Chen Pingyuan Peking University Press · 2021 The Boya Yinghua Series—Classic Collection of Chinese Social Science Masters (24 Volumes) is a boxed set of the humanities and social sciences series …
Salt and the Tang Empire: Salt Law, Finance, and National Revival in the Tang Dynasty cover
Rating 4.3
Salt and the Tang Empire: Salt Law, Finance, and National Revival in the Tang Dynasty 吴丽娱 Hebei Education Press · 2025 Salt is an utterly ordinary everyday seasoning, yet in medieval China it was a strategic resource affecting the fate of the state. This book is a coll…
From Mufu to Officialdom: The Transformation and Travails of the Qing Dynasty's Local Bureaucracy cover
Rating 4.0
From Mufu to Officialdom: The Transformation and Travails of the Qing Dynasty's Local Bureaucracy 关晓红 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014 This book is a monograph by Guan Xiaohong, professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University, on the reform of the local bureaucracy in the late Qing. Th…
Emperor Amid Republic: The Sixth Year of the Republic, China's Dilemma cover
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Emperor Amid Republic: The Sixth Year of the Republic, China's Dilemma Zhang Ming Contemporary China Publishing House · 2014 In 1917, the sixth year of the Republic, a restoration farce lasting barely more than ten days played out in Beijing: Zhang Xun marched his queue-wear…
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1918–1956) (Three Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1918–1956) (Three Volumes) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Qunzhong Publishing House · 1982 The Gulag Archipelago is the magnum opus of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. Subtitled "An Experiment in Literary…
A Political History of the Song Dynasty cover
A Political History of the Song Dynasty 何忠礼 Zhejiang University Press · 2007 A Political History of the Song Dynasty is a dynastic political history monograph by Song historian He Zhongli, published in 2007 by Zhejiang Universi…
The Collected Works of Qian Mu on Chinese Classics (Ten Volumes) cover
The Collected Works of Qian Mu on Chinese Classics (Ten Volumes) Qian Mu (Ch'ien Mu) Jiuzhou Press · 2018 The Collected Works of Qian Mu on Chinese Classics is a ten-volume compilation of Qian Mu's (1895–1990, courtesy name Binsi) writings published by Jiu…
The Great Enterprise: The History of the Qing Dynasty's Founding cover
Rating 4.4
The Great Enterprise: The History of the Qing Dynasty's Founding 魏斐德 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2010 The Great Enterprise: The History of the Qing Dynasty's Founding is the magnum opus of the American historian Frederic Wakeman. The English original i…