Joseph Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8811-5245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technology, labour, livestock, and the Maoist developmental state: Four-wheeled tractors in China, 1953–1963
Four-wheeled, 25–50 horsepower tractors imported to China from other socialist countries in the 1950s were a symbol of modernity and a source of problems. They were introduced to North China to increase multiple cropping. No significant increase in multiple cropping occurred in that region. The cost of tractor services far outweighed what could be earned with the labour they displaced in the 1950s and early 1960s. However, the government remained…
Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service. In the early 1950s when most teachers were men, the party's special relationship with teaching was consistent with a generally conservative approach to g…
Integrating land‐water‐people connectivity concepts across disciplines for co‐design of soil erosion solutions
Soil resources in East Africa are being rapidly depleted by erosion, threatening food, water and livelihood security in the region. Here we demonstrate how the integration of evidence from natural and social sciences has supported a community‐led change in land management in an agro‐pastoral community in northern Tanzania. Geospatial analysis of erosion risk and extent (based on a drone survey across a 3.6 km 2 sub‐catchment) revealed that recent…
State, Commune and Gender Inequality Among Teachers in Rural and Small-Town China, 1957-1979
Studies of Maoist China have suggested that workplace gender inequality was greater in rural areas than cities. One possible explanation is that this was a result of the different institutional arrangements that governed rural and urban spaces. Another alternative is that different ideologies were associated with different types of work irrespective of institutional context. This article examines this through an analysis of teachers in Guangdong …
Millet, Wheat, and Society in North China over the Very Long Term
This paper outlines a very longue durée history of three of North China's most important cereal crops: broomcorn millet, foxtail millet, and wheat. It illustrates their place within broader social-environmental formations, highlighting the various biological and cultural factors that enabled the spread of these crops, as well as the ways in which these crops and the patterns in which they are grown influenced North China's economic and social his…
A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. Large numbers of Nuosu and Han alike were kidnapped and killed in widespread patterns of captive taking. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless challenges the view that the persistent turmoil…
Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China’s Southwest Frontier
Reviewed: Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier By Po-yi Hung. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii + 205 pp. US$ 79.99. ISBN 978-1-137-49407-8
Unsettled Lands: Labour and land cultivation in western China during the War of Resistance (1937-1945)
Before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, almost all Chinese leaders and intellectuals believed that the large-scale agricultural settlement of China's western peripheries would rapidly deliver extensive economic and social benefits. At the onset of the war, many officials from the western provinces pressed the central government to fund programmes to allow millions of refugees from Japanese-occupied territory to settle on and cultivate 'wastel…
Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China , edited by David Fauer and Ho Ts’ui-p’ing
Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China, edited by David Fauer and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2013. xii, 254 pp. $34.95 US (paper). Previous approaches to the topic of this book's subtitle have drawn strongly on sources created by the imperial state (such as officials' memorials to the throne, and local gazetteers that were usually sponsored and edited by magist…
The dragon and the taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand
The dragon and the taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand, edited by Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, 2009. x + 374 pp. index, notes, bibliography, $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8694-0436
Warlord Colonialism: State Fragmentation and Chinese Rule in Kham, 1911-1949
This article investigates Chinese warlord authority in the east of the Kham Tibetan region between 1911 and 1949. The colonial government established by the Qing Empire in Kham during the five years before the end of dynastic rule relied on central government funding. With the fragmentation of the Chinese state in the Republican period, Chinese regimes in Kham were forced to raise more revenue locally and reduce expenditure. Responding to these c…
Warlord Colonialism: State Fragmentation and Chinese Rule in Kham, 1911-1949
This article investigates Chinese warlord authority in the east of the Kham Tibetan region between 1911 and 1949. The colonial government established by the Qing Empire in Kham during the five years before the end of dynastic rule relied on central government funding. With the fragmentation of the Chinese state in the Republican period, Chinese regimes in Kham were forced to raise more revenue locally and reduce expenditure. Responding to these c…
Millet, Wheat, and Society in North China over the Very Long Term
This paper outlines a very longue durée history of three of North China's most important cereal crops: broomcorn millet, foxtail millet, and wheat. It illustrates their place within broader social-environmental formations, highlighting the various biological and cultural factors that enabled the spread of these crops, as well as the ways in which these crops and the patterns in which they are grown influenced North China's economic and social his…
Unsettled Lands: Labour and land cultivation in western China during the War of Resistance (1937-1945)
Before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, almost all Chinese leaders and intellectuals believed that the large-scale agricultural settlement of China's western peripheries would rapidly deliver extensive economic and social benefits. At the onset of the war, many officials from the western provinces pressed the central government to fund programmes to allow millions of refugees from Japanese-occupied territory to settle on and cultivate 'wastel…
The dragon and the taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand
The dragon and the taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand, edited by Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, 2009. x + 374 pp. index, notes, bibliography, $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8694-0436
Warlord Colonialism: State Fragmentation and Chinese Rule in Kham, 1911-1949
This article investigates Chinese warlord authority in the east of the Kham Tibetan region between 1911 and 1949. The colonial government established by the Qing Empire in Kham during the five years before the end of dynastic rule relied on central government funding. With the fragmentation of the Chinese state in the Republican period, Chinese regimes in Kham were forced to raise more revenue locally and reduce expenditure. Responding to these c…
Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China , edited by David Fauer and Ho Ts’ui-p’ing
Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China, edited by David Fauer and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2013. xii, 254 pp. $34.95 US (paper). Previous approaches to the topic of this book's subtitle have drawn strongly on sources created by the imperial state (such as officials' memorials to the throne, and local gazetteers that were usually sponsored and edited by magist…
Unsettled Lands: Labour and land cultivation in western China during the War of Resistance (1937-1945)
Before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, almost all Chinese leaders and intellectuals believed that the large-scale agricultural settlement of China's western peripheries would rapidly deliver extensive economic and social benefits. At the onset of the war, many officials from the western provinces pressed the central government to fund programmes to allow millions of refugees from Japanese-occupied territory to settle on and cultivate 'wastel…
A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. Large numbers of Nuosu and Han alike were kidnapped and killed in widespread patterns of captive taking. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless challenges the view that the persistent turmoil…
Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China’s Southwest Frontier
Reviewed: Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier By Po-yi Hung. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii + 205 pp. US$ 79.99. ISBN 978-1-137-49407-8
Millet, Wheat, and Society in North China over the Very Long Term
This paper outlines a very longue durée history of three of North China's most important cereal crops: broomcorn millet, foxtail millet, and wheat. It illustrates their place within broader social-environmental formations, highlighting the various biological and cultural factors that enabled the spread of these crops, as well as the ways in which these crops and the patterns in which they are grown influenced North China's economic and social his…
Integrating land‐water‐people connectivity concepts across disciplines for co‐design of soil erosion solutions
Soil resources in East Africa are being rapidly depleted by erosion, threatening food, water and livelihood security in the region. Here we demonstrate how the integration of evidence from natural and social sciences has supported a community‐led change in land management in an agro‐pastoral community in northern Tanzania. Geospatial analysis of erosion risk and extent (based on a drone survey across a 3.6 km 2 sub‐catchment) revealed that recent…
State, Commune and Gender Inequality Among Teachers in Rural and Small-Town China, 1957-1979
Studies of Maoist China have suggested that workplace gender inequality was greater in rural areas than cities. One possible explanation is that this was a result of the different institutional arrangements that governed rural and urban spaces. Another alternative is that different ideologies were associated with different types of work irrespective of institutional context. This article examines this through an analysis of teachers in Guangdong …
Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service. In the early 1950s when most teachers were men, the party's special relationship with teaching was consistent with a generally conservative approach to g…
Technology, labour, livestock, and the Maoist developmental state: Four-wheeled tractors in China, 1953–1963
Four-wheeled, 25–50 horsepower tractors imported to China from other socialist countries in the 1950s were a symbol of modernity and a source of problems. They were introduced to North China to increase multiple cropping. No significant increase in multiple cropping occurred in that region. The cost of tractor services far outweighed what could be earned with the labour they displaced in the 1950s and early 1960s. However, the government remained…
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