The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to t

This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and

What is "Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response t

In this study, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configurations to the Ming Dynasty.

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This