Taisu Zhang

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Professor @YaleLawSch and @yale_history, comparative historian, legal theorist, occasional commentator on China-related stuff.

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Tweet Feb 9, 2023

Ok, the book is finally available (after numerous logistical delays since August). So here’s a thread about its main thesis. The central puzzle is tries to solve is why late imperial Chinese taxation (specifically, Qing taxation) was so unbelievably

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Tweet May 15, 2022

Over the past month, I’ve been surprised (pleasantly?) at how brittle social media Chinese nationalism is in the face of still moderate socioeconomic upheaval. If my Weibo feed (which includes most of the major nationalist public intellectuals) is an

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