CQH Working Paper Series

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The Paradox of State-Building: Tuition-Free Teachers' Schools and Communist Revolution in Republican China
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Ningning Ma; Wuyue You
- State Building
- Teachers' School
- Chinese Communist Party
Downloads: 0 - Published: 2026-10-16
The Intellectual Origin of Legal Institution and Modern Banking
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Ting Chen; Chong Liu; Shuang Shi; Yuling Zhu
- Court
- Legal Talents
- Bank
- Modern China
Downloads: 0 - Published: 2026-10-15
States and Wars: China’s Long March Towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC – 1911 AD
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Shuo Chen; Debin Ma

Downloads: 0 - Published: 2026-10-14
Two Millennia of Chinese Economic Growth
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Runzhuo Zhai; Yuan Gao
- Historical GDP
- Economic Growth
- Malthus
- Unified Growth Theory
Downloads: 4 - Published: 2026-10-13
Political Repression and Nation-building
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Peiyuan Li
- Political repression
- Newspapers
- Revolution
- Nation-building
- China
Downloads: 0 - Published: 2026-10-12
Telegraph, Media, and State Information Capacity: Evidence from Late Imperial China
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Yu Hao; Yuxiang Wang

Downloads: 4 - Published: 2026-10-07
Matriarch for the Patriarch: Female Regency, Two-Sided Commitment and Political Stability in Historical China
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Joy Chen; Zhenhuan Lei; Xiuyu Li
- Historical Political Economy
- Political Succession
- Regency
- Gender
Downloads: 3 - Published: 2026-10-07
Knowledge for Lineage: Queen, Keju and Social Mobility in Tang China
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Shuo Chen; Sijie Hu; Shouying Liu; Zhenxiang Wu
- Institutional transformation
- Empress Wu
- keju
- social mobility
- marital matching
- Tang China
Downloads: 1 - Published: 2026-10-07
Awakening Latent Human Capital: The Opening-up and Entrepreneurship in 19th-Century China
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Li Duan; Xiaoming Zhang
- Civil Service Examinations
- Human Capital
- Entrepreneurship
- Bibliometrics
- Treaty Ports
Downloads: 2 - Published: 2026-10-07
Christian Missionaries and International Trade,1580-1936
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Zhiwu Chen; Xinhao Li; Chicheng Ma

Downloads: 2 - Published: 2026-10-06