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(Book Reviews) Seeking Certain Numbers: Making It Count
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Ci Yungui
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(Reading Notes) China’s Techno-Warriors
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(Reading Notes) Arguments that Count
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(Reading Notes) China’s Path to Modernity Through the Typewriter
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(Book Reviews)Inventing the Internet: Rediscovering the Tension between Military and Civilian Technology
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(RN 中) 万火归一 Todos los fuegos el fuego by Julio Cortázar
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(reading notes) The Rise and Fall of American Growth
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(Reading Notes) Agricultural Technology and Its Political Continuity, read notes on Red Revolution and the Green Revolution
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(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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Index