@FBoecking

Economic thought, tariffs, trade, especially in China. Historian of modern China @HCAatEdinburgh. Former fellow @TheWilsonCenter. Author of “No Great Wall”.

 Edinburgh, Scotland
hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970601
Joined February 2018
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Die Herausgeber vor der Edition @degruyter_brill in der Buchhandlung @riemann_coburg die es schon zu Lebzeiten der Autorin gab. Alles möglich dank @RabeaRi …
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🚨 Two PhD positions with me at the University of Zurich! Join my new project “Governing the Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Holds Itself Together”. 4 years · Start: 1 March 2027 Apply by 22 November 2026 Please share widely! :-) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/tw…

UZH: Two PhD positions SNSF project “Governing the Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Holds...

The Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (IAOS) at the University of Zurich is the largest centre for research and teaching on Asia in Switzerland. Within the IAOS, the Chair of Modern Chinese...

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Being a great cultural institution the Imperial War Museum gets its share of brickbats - here's what I learned in eight years on the board markurban.substack.com/p/sec…
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Salonkolumnisten@SalonkolumnistMar 18
Die Nachrufe auf Jürgen Habermas glänzen durch unkritische Bewunderung. Unser Gastautor @IlkoKowalczuk ist davon überzeugt, dass Habermas davon wenig begeistert gewesen wäre und hat deshalb auch ein paar kritische Anmerkungen. salonkolumnisten.com/mein-ha…

Mein Habermas

Die Nachrufe auf Jürgen Habermas glänzen durch unkritische Bewunderung. Unser Gastautor Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk ist davon überzeugt, dass Habermas davon wenig begeistert gewesen wäre und hat deshalb…

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Amid talk of trade wars and tariffs with China, this podcast from 2019 is getting attention again! A conversation with the fab @FBoecking about how a collapse in Republican China's tariff revenue led to fiscal and state collapse. hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…

No Great Wall — Harvard University Press

This book, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang...

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@FairbankCenter30 Sep 2019
🎧NEW PODCAST: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China @FBoecking talks to @jagevans about his latest book "No Great Wall" from @Harvard_Press soundcloud.com/fairbank-cent…

Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, with Felix...

"No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945" (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepte

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If you feel offended by Bishop Budde’s plea for compassion and mercy, then you are many things, but “Christian” is not one of them.
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The re-election of Donald Trump is a decisive rejection of liberalism, writes Francis Fukuyama: on.ft.com/3YJffkn

Francis Fukuyama: what Trump unleashed means for America

The Republican president-elect is inaugurating a new era in US politics and perhaps for the world as a whole

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Join a choir today!
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So good to catch up with a busy #oldfriend this weekend #workingcats
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From the department of „why are we rewilding. #beavers again“?
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hmm man könnte sagen Konservative Politik auf einem Bild.
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Grüße aus Gorleben
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It’s that time of the year again… we have the best students @HCAatEdinburgh!
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Marx's most important insight is not the centrality of class struggle as the driver of history but the constraint that historical structures puts on the ability of individual leaders to bring about significant change
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What is Taylor Swift whispering in Lana’s ear? 👀
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Final pathway week means cake #idontmaketherules @HCAatEdinburgh
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PEN International@pen_int15 Jan 2024
#Xinjiang: Today marks 10 years since #Uyghur writer/academic #IlhamTohti was detained for his work promoting inter-ethnic dialogue and advocating for the rights of minorities in #China. We continue to call for his immediate and unconditional release: pen-international.org/news/c…
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Die erste öffentliche Lesung @RabeaRi … mit meinem Lieblingsbuch zur Absicherung 😌@RichterHedwig
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I’m not saying that baked goods are the best reason to study economic and social history @HCAGrad_Edin @HCAatEdinburgh, but maybe they are one of the reasons?
A classroom table with three bowls of cookies, one homemade, two professionally made

ALT A classroom table with three bowls of cookies, one homemade, two professionally made

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I’m very excited that it’s publication day for Die Tagebücher der Hildegard von Erffa, 1889–1900, co-edited with my mother - degruyter.com/document/doi/1… thank you @degruyter_pub and @RabeaRi! – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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