FRONTIERS IN CHINESE STUDIES - STATE-BUILDING OR STATE-WEAKENING? THE CONSEQUENCES OF MILITARY CONTROL IN MEDIEVAL CHINA
- Starting Time 活動開始時間
October 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC
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October 23, 2024 at 12:00 PM EDT
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- Participants 嘉賓
Erik H. Wang 王海驍, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University (erik.wang@nyu.edu)
- Organizers 主協辦機構
Organized by Song Chen With Support from the China Institute at Bucknell University
- Mode 活動形式
- In-person
- Venue 地點
- On Zoom
- Languages 語言
- English
- Description 詳情
State-building in conflict-prone societies faces the challenge of autonomous armed groups. We argue that military centralization, while strengthening a state’s ability to control the upper elites of these armed groups, can weaken the state's coercive capacity by reducing discipline and efficiency among the lower ranks in these groups. This talk studies a centralization reform in China’s Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), and finds that centralization reduced rebellions by local generals but led to more mutinies in the lower ranks of the military, more civilian uprisings, and worse battlefield performance. These findings highlight the complex effects of military centralization on the state’s coercive capacity, often overlooked in political science. (Co-author: Joy Chen)
Time: 12–1 p.m. (US Eastern Time), Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Zoom Link: https://bucknell.zoom.us/j/96347965436?pwd=EmGNHo08JraqJbpFcsqsH4Q4ftZLMy.1
(Meeting ID: 963 4796 5436; Password: cbdb)
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