This project seeks to explain China’s historical trajectory, especially how China evolved into a centralized bureaucratic state with a largely capitalist market economy.
Bureaucratization as a Bumpy Journey: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Chinese State
(Job Market Paper)
The Curse of the Mandate of Heaven: A Model of Power Centralization
Shuyi Yu
Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Theory of Power Dynamics and Social Evolution
Shuyi Yu
The Political Economy of the Autonomous State
Abstract
The second asks how effective governance can be sustained within such a state, whose logic may differ from conventional institutional prescriptions for Western democracies.
