The making of the modern Chinese state 1600-1950
/ Huaiyin Li.
. — New York : Routledge, 2020.
xiv, 335 p.
The rise of an early-modern territorial state: China in the early to mid-Qing period -- Limits to territorial expansion: fiscal constitution and war-making under the Qing -- Regionalized centralism: the resilience and fragility of the late Qing state -- Between the frontier and the coast: geopolitical strategy reoriented -- A nation-state in the making: fiscal expansion and the new policies -- Centralized regionalism: the rise of regional fiscal-military states -- In search of national unity: frontier rebuilding under the Republic -- The fate of semi-centralism: the Nationalist state succeeded and failed -- Total centralism at work: the confluence of breakthroughs in state-making.
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China--Politics and government--1644-1912. China--Politics and government--1912-1949.
