Prohibited Mountains and Forests in Late Imperial China by Vincent Goossaert

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Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE. by Qiang Wu, Guangyu Tong, Peng Zhou

“…This paper attempts to describe and explain the long-term evolution of wage inequality in imperial China, covering over two millennia from the Han dynasty to the Qing dynasty (202 BCE-1912 CE). …”
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Dangerous Women or Women in Danger? Women and Properties of Extinct Households in Late Imperial China by Sun Jiahong, Luca Gabbiani

“…Over its evolution, imperial China’s legal tradition has produced as series of laws and regulations on the issue of vacant successions, which were supplemented by a host of local practices or “customs”. …”
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Urbs en China: miradas europeas durante el período moderno de la realidad urbana en China by Anna Busquets, Marina Torres

“…Specifically, we will study the physical part of the city (urbs) enabling us to analyse firstly the importance and function that the urban centres had in late imperial China. Secondly, it will allow us to understand the interests and the specific perspective of the Spanish and Portuguese from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.…”
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Emotions, a Social and Historical Phenomenon: Some Notes on the Chinese Case by Paolo Santangelo

“…The second part of the article presents some characteristics of the emotional imagery representation on the basis of a long-term project on emotions and imagery in late imperial China. Concrete examples are given on the concept of love and on the normal-abnormal feelings in extreme cognitive and affective conditions.…”
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Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation by Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, Rory Kent, James Poskett

“…In addition to the familiar, contemporary cases of climate change and COVID-19, we sketch out how three historical crises transformed knowledge production in disparate ways: the Ming–Qing transition in late imperial China, crises of labour precarity in seventeenth-century Istanbul and the 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.…”
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From Cultural Symbol to Campus “Idol” and Back by Sheri A. Lullo

“…Few in the community were fully aware, however, that the work is a venerable stone guardian lion from late imperial China, which was gifted to the college by an alumnus in 1874. …”
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Institutional mosaic of financial institutions in the late Qing China and synthesis of organizational forms: from piaohao and qianzhuang to the central bank by M. S. Kruglova

“…Objective: to determine the peculiarities of forming the banking system in late imperial China in terms of the interaction between traditional Chinese banking institutions, imported institutional forms, and state reform strategies. …”
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NGUYEN DU’S PERCEPTION ABOUT CHINA UNDER THE QING DYNASTY THROUGH BAC HANH TAP LUC by Lê Quang Trường

“…This article analyzes Nguyen Du’s rational and emotional perceptions of China, especially Chinese culture as implied in “Bac hanh tap luc”, to better understand a case of direct interaction of a Vietnamese Confucian scholar with imperial China.…”
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