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Bureaucracy and the state in early China : governing the western Zhou
Ancient Chinese society developed a sophisticated bureaucracy which is still in operation today and which had its pristine form in the government of the Western Zhou from 1045 to 771 BC. This study explores and interprets the origins and operational characteristics of that bureaucracy.
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The Material Turn
Despite the modern origin of social science theories about capitalism, it remains controversial whether “capitalism” is uniquely modern. By comparison, it is a point of much less ambiguity, even if only for its general inclusiveness, that “economism,” characterized by a decisive materialistic turn in culture and society, is of recent origin. “Economism,” as Leah Greenfeld identifies it, is a state of mind and a view of life in which issues of economy occupy a place of centrality. In social and political thought it emerges in the assumption that continuous economic growth is considered not only a possibility but also an
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