Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Role of the Gentry in Chinese History
The gentry that person who did not succeed in the civil servants exam or persons who retired or resigned from the official positions then they all go back to their country village. Gentry is important in Chinese history because it their role explained why China's empire of such vast territory huge number of populations could be maintained through very small bureaucracy over a thousand years. The social order was not based on the form or bureaucracy not based on military not based on coercion but it's based on a cultural order but cultural and etc.
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