Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840 Maria Adele Carrai, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Cambridge University Press, 2019 Publisher’s Link [...]

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 [...]