ISCLH is pleased to share member and board director Madeleine Zelin‘s new publication from Law and History Review. “A Deep History of Chinese [...]

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH), the International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH), and the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Program [...]

Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet Max Oidtmann, Georgetown University Qatar Columbia University Press, 2018 Orders through [...]

Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang Bettine Birge, University of Southern California Harvard University Press, 2017 [...]

China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965 Philip Thai, Northeastern University Columbia University Press, 2018 [...]

Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics Li Chen, University of Toronto Columbia University Press, 2016 Publisher’s Description: [...]

Please see below for information on a new article from member Xiaoqun Xu. “Law, Custom, and Social Norms: Civil Adjudications in Qing and Republican China,” Law [...]

Dear members of ISCLH, On behalf of the new officers and directors, please allow me to thank you for your ongoing support of the society. As the new board, which was [...]