From Empire to Nation-state: War, Political Entrepreneurs, and National Sovereignty in China

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of China

Brief Overview

Shows how political entrepreneurs facilitated the adoption and internalization of the Westphalian system in early 20th century China, by analyzing granular historical newspaper datasets with novel computational social science tools

Authors

• Peng Peng, Yale University

• Haohan Chen, The University of Hong Kong

• Yingtian He