The Origins of Direct Rule: Evidence from the Qing Empire

• In Event: Historical State Development

Brief Overview

We digitize a large-scale historical archive to construct a novel dataset of native chiefdoms to identify how the international price of copper causally motivated rulers to shift from indirect rule to direct rule in Southwest China.

Authors

• Jun Fang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• James Kai-sing Kung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology