AbstractWith the introduction of Western-style modern archaeology to China in the early 20th century, Chinese intellectuals recognised its methodology as d

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What if China’s ‘unity’ was never a map, but a story travelers told themselves?

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I first met Gao Xiaoxian in 1992 at a conference at Peking University, but even before that I had heard about her extraordinary work with the Women’s Federation and her deep knowledge of life in the S...

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Abstract Even though agriculture was not the central thrust of planning in Mao-era China (1949–1976), starting in the 1950s, the party-state progressively nationalized land, reorganized social relatio...

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