The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China’s Civil War
Via ZoomWhen World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China ...
When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China ...
ABSTRACT This talk tells the story of Dragon Lady Traders, a US-based company established by Veronica Yhap in the early 1970s that imported clothing from China. Yhap’s experiences highlight the […]
Most conventional theories of state origin regard economic development as a catalyst for state formation ...
This paper examines the rise of canned evaporated milk and its subsequent impact on the ecologies during the postwar Philippines ...
During this Quantitative History Webinar, Wolfgang Keller of the University of Colorado Boulder will present his latest research with his co-author Carol H. Shiue studying the ...
The Symposium on New Frontiers and Directions in Chinese History 2023 is a two-day event on June 23 – 24, 2023, showcasing the latest research in Chinese history ...
The Symposium on New Frontiers and Directions in Chinese History 2023 is a two-day event on June 23 – 24, 2023, showcasing the latest research in Chinese history ...
Measuring the living standards of pre-modern societies is a crucial subject in economic history ...
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A managed foreign exchange regime has been integral to the Chinese economy since 1949, but how did it come about? ...
Where do gender norms that favour men come from? While the status of women in India has its origins in part in son preference ...
This is an event organized by the CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: ...
In this Quantitative History Lecture, Debin Ma of the University of Oxford will present his paper which revisits the ...
In May 1877, the British government of the Straits Settlements set up the Chinese Protectorate ...
Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? Ying Bai of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his co-authors investigate this question by ...
Dams suggest progress — they are a way of arresting the flow of water (and that which it contains) to convert its potential energy into something useable ...
Tragedy is said to be universal in the sense that human beings everywhere know what it might mean to suffer ...
China Engineers, Ltd. (信昌機器工程公司) was a hybrid company founded in 1928 by the Eurasian entrepreneur William Charles Gomersall (1895 – 1960) ...
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Nicolas Tackett of the University of California, Berkeley will describe important ...
Buddhism is regarded as a traditional faith in Russia and is part of the national spiritual tradition. Buddhism is a traditional religion for three regions of Russia: ...
“Pathways” (Dao道) in classical Daoist discourses, not really “ready-made,” tend to make themselves anew quite readily ...
The political territory of the Western Zhou dynasty consisted of two major parts: the royal domain (wangji) and the feudal states ...
“Bollywood” and “Broadway” are examples of creative districts with strong brand equity ...
How should we think about long-term economic progress? Something dramatic changed in Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution ...
