Table of Contents Abstract The massive expansion of solar power in China was less a linear green transition than an evolving process of managing a politically conjured energy market. Triggered by the 2008 financial crisis, a rapid deployment soon collided with rigid material and institutional constraints of the national grid. This study analyzes this market […]
Table of Contents Abstract This talk examines different modes through which the Han authorities interacted with non-Han groups on and beyond the northern and southern frontier zones of the Western Han Empire. It focuses on two examples. The first concerns diplomatic contact between a Yiqu 義渠 ruler and a high-ranking Han local official in […]
Table of Contents Abstract In family wealth management, much attention is paid to investment strategies, succession planning and governance. Yet one of the most important challenges facing entrepreneurial families today is how to build investment organizations that combine the alignment of a family with the discipline and governance of an institutional investment platform. For […]
Table of Contents Abstract The highlands of the Southeast Asian Massif and adjacent Southwest China constitute one of the most persistent geographies of ignorance in the human sciences — quartered between competing area studies disciplines, divided by postcolonial sovereign borders, and silenced by archives that encode colonial and dynastic optics while systematically excluding highland perspectives. […]