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Macabe Keliher
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Historian at Southern Methodist University. East Asia political economy and the developmental state.
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I here argue that machine tool development in the Maoist period drove manufacturing in the reform period.
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Machine Tools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Economy
How China came to dominate global manufacturing
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September 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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An expansive exploration of ritual in the early modern world beyond China. Gave me a chance to stretch out a little more.
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Guest edited by Carina Johnson (Pitzer College), @macabekeliher.bsky.social (Southern Methodist University) and Kaya Şahin (Ohio State University), the latest double issue of our ‘Journal of Early Modern History’ is a special issue on Political Ceremonies and Rituals.

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Cover of the “Journal of Early Modern History” with a 16th-century Portuguese illustration labeled “marinheiros arabios,” showing a person carrying a basket of green round objects on their head, from the Códice Casanatense. A 14th-century illuminated manuscript showing Alexander the Great on horseback, leading armed soldiers to a city gate, from the The Venice Alexander Romance, Hellenic Institute Codex Gr. 5, second half of the 14th cent., fol. 60v. Courtesy of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies, Venice. 16th century manuscript illustration depicting a procession with icons, near a city. From the illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (LLS 23: 251). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Copyright: AKTEON Publishers, Moscow.
August 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Guest edited by Carina Johnson (Pitzer College), @macabekeliher.bsky.social (Southern Methodist University) and Kaya Şahin (Ohio State University), the latest double issue of our ‘Journal of Early Modern History’ is a special issue on Political Ceremonies and Rituals.

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Cover of the “Journal of Early Modern History” with a 16th-century Portuguese illustration labeled “marinheiros arabios,” showing a person carrying a basket of green round objects on their head, from the Códice Casanatense. A 14th-century illuminated manuscript showing Alexander the Great on horseback, leading armed soldiers to a city gate, from the The Venice Alexander Romance, Hellenic Institute Codex Gr. 5, second half of the 14th cent., fol. 60v. Courtesy of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies, Venice. 16th century manuscript illustration depicting a procession with icons, near a city. From the illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (LLS 23: 251). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Copyright: AKTEON Publishers, Moscow.
April 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Panel: Rethinking Industrialization and Economic Development in Postwar East Asia: The Case of Taiwan
Roundtable: The Developmental State as an Object of Historical Inquiry: New Themes and Approaches
December 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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This is a real beauty, in which Macabe Keliher unpacks how the Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation (TMMC), helped resolve coordination failures and provided manufacturing capacity to infant industries, helping facilitate Taiwan’s economic miracle.
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Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation and the Role of State Firms in Economic Development | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation and the Role of State Firms in Economic Development
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December 2, 2024 at 7:44 PM