Divide and Rule: Ethnic Segregation, Bureaucratic Control, and Public Goods Provision in Imperial China

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of China

Brief Overview

This study reframes ethnic segregation as a strategic tool for enhancing state capacity, empirically demonstrating how it improved public goods provision efficiency in Qing China by suppressing elite collusion and reinforcing bureaucratic compliance.

Author

• Xianqi Cao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology