I here argue that machine tool development in the Maoist period drove manufacturing in the reform period. macabekeliher.substack.com/p/machine-to...

An expansive exploration of ritual in the early modern world beyond China. Gave me a chance to stretch out a little more.

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. brill.com/view/journal...

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

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. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...