Articles by Mark Elvin

• China’s Multiple Revolutions
  • Mark Elvin

  in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 83-101
  Subjects: China , Literature
  

  Beneath the dramatic social, political and military turmoil of China’s last two centuries, Mark Elvin suggests, lay a series of existential crises amid the collapse of established pillars of authority, whose most vivid expression can be found in two largely forgotten novels of the 1920s and 1970s.

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• Concepts of Nature
  • Mark Elvin

  in NLR 64, July-August 2010, pp. 65-82
  Subjects: China , History and Historiography , Literature
  

  Landscapes of Ausonius, mountain retreats of Xie Tiao, mediaeval paradise-gardens: can underlying similarities of deep structure and social function be traced in the work of classical European and Chinese writers? A panoramic cross-cultural comparison of approaches to the natural world.

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• The Historian as Haruspex
  • Mark Elvin

  in NLR 52, July-August 2008, pp. 83-109
  Subjects: China , Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing proposes a bold new political-economic patterning of China’s rise, America’s decline. Mark Elvin examines the assumptions behind narratives of divergent West and East, and the parameters that will define a reconfigured world order.

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