Data for: Defending hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic capital and political dominance in early modern China and the Cold War

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The theory presented in the article concerns how the evolution of fields of contestation for supremacy and position within hierarchical ‘games’ generates incentives for actors to invest even massive amounts of “tangible” resources into displays of cultural competence that have no immediate “material” payoffs commensurate with that investment. The piece applies its theorizing to two disparate cases: the “treasure fleet” expeditions under the early Ming in the early fourteenth century and to the Apollo project of manned voyages by the United States in the 1960s and early 1970s.