Division 7: Politics and History

(Paper) From Sword to Seal: The Political Economy of State-Building in Medieval China - Muqian Gao, Central China Normal University; Yaxing Yang, East China Normal University

(Paper) Institutional Confucianism and State Building of Imperial China - Xiongfu Xiao, Duke University

(Paper) The Eve of Leviathan: Bureaucratic Reform and State Building in Medieval China - Duancheng Yang, East China University of Political Science and Law; Runze Tai, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

(Paper) The Order of Purge: Power Centralization in Qing China - Yuntian LI, Stockholm School of Economics; XIAO YAN, Renmin University of China

Duancheng Yang East China University of Political Science and Law

Peng Peng Washington University in St Louis