Friday, November 21 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Grant Park Parlor (6th Floor)

Session 61
Historical Social Sciences and China (I): New Approaches to Studying Elite Politics

Chair: Erik Haixiao Wang, New York University
Discussant: Benjamin Rohr, University of Mannheim

1. Assortative Mating in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE): Imperial Examination, Aristocracy, and Elite Adaptation • Fangqi Wen, Ohio State University; Erik Haixiao Wang, New York University; Michael Hout, New York University (NYU).

2. Bureaucratization as a Bumpy Journey: The Rise and Fall of Imperial Chinese State • Shuyi Yu, University of Chicago.

3. The Evolution of Modern Chinese Elites in the 20th Century • Xingchen Lan, New York University; Junyan Jiang, Columbia University.

4. Fragmented Authoritarianism Revisited: The Chinese State as a Loosely Coupled System • xueguang zhou, Stanford University; Yuze Sui, Stanford University.

5. Vacancy Replacement of Political Elites in Post-reform China • Shilin Jia, Stanford University.

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