Chinese Politics Mini-Conference

Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

(Paper) Ethnic Conflict and the Degradation of Women: Evidence from the Manchu Conquest - Yinxuan Wang, New York University; Erik H Wang, New York University

(Paper) Matriarch for the Patriarch: Female Regency in Historical China - Zhenhuan Lei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Joy Chen, Renmin University of China; Xiuyu Li, New York University

(Paper) Mastering the Mandarins: Autocratic Control of the Bureaucracy in Imperial China - Cheng Cheng, New York University; Daniel Mattingly, Yale University

(Paper) Position Assignments and Military Loyalty: KMT Officers in the Chinese Civil War - Linchuan Zhang, Emory University

(Paper) The Curse of the Mandate of Heaven: A Model of Power Centralization - Shuyi Yu, University of Chicago

Erik H Wang New York University

Dawn L. Teele Johns Hopkins University

Yuhua Wang Harvard University