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Category: Reading Notes

  • (Book Reviews) Seeking Certain Numbers: Making It Count

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    Book Reviews, Reading Notes
  • Ci Yungui

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    Reading Notes, Research Progress
  • (Reading Notes) China’s Techno-Warriors

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    Reading Notes, Research Progress
  • (Reading Notes) Arguments that Count

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    Reading Notes
  • (Reading Notes) China’s Path to Modernity Through the Typewriter

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    Book Reviews, Reading Notes
  • (Book Reviews)Inventing the Internet: Rediscovering the Tension between Military and Civilian Technology

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    Book Reviews, Reading Notes
  • (RN 中) 万火归一 Todos los fuegos el fuego by Julio Cortázar

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    Reading Notes
  • (reading notes) The Rise and Fall of American Growth

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    Reading Notes
  • (Reading Notes) Agricultural Technology and Its Political Continuity, read notes on Red Revolution and the Green Revolution

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    Book Reviews, Reading Notes
  • (RN_en) Carbon Technocracy Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

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Table of Contents

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  • Academic Status and the State of Dialogue
  • Pre-1949, Early PRC, and the Great Leap Forward: Manifestations and Differences across Three Stages
    • The Denied “Bourgeois” Legacy (Pre-1949 and Early Cleanup)
    • The Soviet Model and the Establishment of “The Exhaustive” (1949–1957)
    • The Great Leap Forward and the Return of the “Ethnographic” Method (Post-1958)
  • The Performance of Technocrats and Their Roles under Different Political Intents
    • Early PRC: Builders of Institutions and Missionaries of the Soviet Model
    • 1956–1957: Explorers Seeking Alternatives
  • Confrontation and Negotiation: Technocratic Agency, Political Capital, and Resistance
    • “Li Ming’s” Letter: Passive Resistance and Negotiation from Below
    • The Vulnerability and Performance of Political Capital
  • The Continuity of Accountability Mechanisms: The Contemporary Legacy of Upward Responsibility
    • Data Flowing “Upward”
    • The Roots of Formalism: The Rupture between Capacity and Will
  • A Few Thoughts
    • Overestimation of the “India Interlude”?
    • The Overlooked Materiality of Calculation
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