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The selection process for the 10th Ministry of Education Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) has concluded. Professor Michael Ng (the University of Hong Kong) has won the Popular Reading Award for his monograph Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997). 教育部第十届科学研究优秀成果奖（人文社会科学）评选工作结束，香港大学吴海杰教授专著《噤若寒蝉：港英時代对媒体和言论的政治审查（1842 – 1997）》获普及读物奖。 Professor Michael Ng is Associate Dean (

An unrivalled account of China’s transition from a poor agrarian economy to a global economic powerhouse This groundbreaking book tells the story of China’s economic rise from the establishment of the People’s Republic to the present. Since the reforms in the late 1970s, China has grown at an extraordinary rate. This transformation did not signify the state’s retreat from the economy. Indeed, it was China’s communist foundation that enabled this astounding development. Yet at

The International Society for Chinese Law and History is organizing an online session on publishing peer-reviewed scholarship in English-language academic journals and edited volumes. The panelists include Professor Nancy Park (California State University, East Bay), an accomplished scholar with an extensive publication record whose work focuses primarily on Qing legal history and administrative and criminal law, and Dr. Yu Liu (Academia Sinica), whose research focuses on the

The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) is delighted to announce the results of its Biennial Book Prize competition for books bearing a 2024 or 2025 copyright date. The prize committee selected Jenny Huangfu Day’s Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China as the winner. The committee particularly admired how Huangfu Day places familiar figures and episodes from modern Chinese history within a fresh legal and transnational f

Call for Proposals The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) Theme: “Chinese Law in Motion: Change, Practice, Circulation, and Continuity” Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2027 Proposal submission link: ISCLH 2027 Biennial Conference Submission System Submission Deadline: August 31, 2026 The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH), established in 2014, is the leading international hub for Chinese legal historia