Gongwen regulations and state-making in Republican China

I recently published a short piece on gongwen 公文 (official documents) in Republican China (1912-1949), as part of a multi-volumes encyclopedia on non-Western historiographies edited by Nathalie Kouamé, Eric P. Meyer and Anne Viguier ((David Serfass, “Les Gongwen (documents officiels) en Chine républicaine (1912-1949)” in Nathalie Kouamé ; Eric P. Meyer, and Anne Viguier, eds., Encyclopédie des historiographies. Afriques, Amériques, Asies, Vol. 1 Sources et genres historiques (Paris : Presses ..