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The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893 (2023)
Thesis
Lu, J. The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to overcome the essentialist conception of Chinese politics as inherently authoritarian, the modernist view of statism as representing a rupture in Chinese political culture, and the teleological reconstruction of modern Chinese hist... Read More about The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893.

Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia (2022)
Thesis
Shan, S. Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In the winter of 1891, a bloody storm swept the south-eastern region of Mongolia, which had provided a home for Mongols, Manchus and Han Chinese over the preceding two centuries. Followers of heterodox sects attacked local Mongol settlements and Chri... Read More about Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia.

The Inculturation of Christianity in Late Imperial China, 1724-1840 (2000)
Thesis
Laamann, L. P. The Inculturation of Christianity in Late Imperial China, 1724-1840. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

The thesis argues that Christianity underwent a profound process of inculturation during the "long eighteenth century", which was caused by the absence of foreign missionaries after the edict of 1724 and by the fact that the Christian centres moved f... Read More about The Inculturation of Christianity in Late Imperial China, 1724-1840.