focus on three phenomena that stand at the center of economic culture in China, networks, localism and modernism. I eschew … center, which in contemporary China builds on the worldview of modernism. Thus, economic modernization is a cultural …

phenomenon of localism in China, which I relate to other cultural phenomena, in particular networks, culturalism and modernism …

paper looks at the case of China and proxies the cultural heterogeneity by the heterogeneity of local dialects. It shows …

-regional transactions by introducing a new methodology and testing it on an important case, China. This paper is based on new identification …, but within individual provinces China is fairly integrated. Further, we also analyze spillovers of local public …

economic change in China is state-building in the longue durée. In particular, this involves the interaction between the … centralization play together in China, resulting into the stabilization of authoritarianism. Political change will come along with …