... ideology Chinese history Stability is in unity. —Mengzi Western observers seem always to have been fascinated with the durability of the Chinese political system. While attitudes toward the Chinese political model changed dramatically over the centuries, reflecting shifts...

... across Ming society, and was not unique to the Ming but can be identified in other times in Chinese history, and perhaps beyond. methodology household military junhu Quanzhou prefecture Yan family of Quanzhou Zhu family of Quanzhou conscription desertion distance documents official state...

... Fu lost languages poetry Princess Jincheng Tang Daizong Tang poetry Tibet Tuyuhun people Zizhi tongjian Old Tibetan Annals history writing China Chinese history Chinese culture Central States ethnicity has often cropped up in the foregoing chapters, wherever they touched...

... imperial political culture modernity Chinese political culture political actors Chinese history modern China political unity It is too soon to tell. —Zhou Enlai, on the impact of the 1789 French Revolution In the eighteenth century, the reigning Qing dynasty...

.... The chapter highlights the central theme of the book: the Chinese ruler's pursuit of power and survival by reshaping the elite social terrain so that he could divide and conquer the elites created a great paradox in Chinese history: imperial rule endured, but the imperial state lost strength. Europe Roman...

... approach early Confucian texts modern political philosophy liberal democracies Chinese history In 1992 Francis Fukuyama famously announced that we are at the end of history because liberal democracy is the “final form of human government,” and the “end point of mankind’s ideological evolution” (1992...

... 1970s and resulted in active protests, which presaged the settling of scores against radical Maoism. A meticulous look at how one overlooked region experienced the Cultural Revolution, the book illuminates the all-encompassing nature of one of the most unstable periods in modern Chinese history....