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News & Updates
We are happy to share news about our members' academic events such as conferences, workshops, or new publications. Please contact us if you are a current ISCLH member and want to share such news.


New Publications: Macabe Keliher
We are pleased to announce the following new articles by Macabe Keliher. They are available on Macabe’s SSRN page:...
Mar 14, 2023


New Book: Xiaoping Cong, Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China Xiaoping Cong, University of Houston Cambridge University Press, 2016 Publisher’s...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: “Legalizing Space in Imperial China”, Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident
See below for information about the exciting new issue of Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident (40, 2016), edited by Jérôme Bourgon: Les lieux...
Mar 14, 2023


New issue of Zhongguo gudai falü wenxian yanjiu 中国古代法律文献研究
A new issue of Zhongguo gudai falü wenxian yanjiu 中国古代法律文献研究 has just been published by Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe 社会科学文献出版社...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: “Law, Custom, and Social Norms: Civil Adjudications in Qing and Republican China”
Please see below for information on a new article from member Xiaoqun Xu. “Law, Custom, and Social Norms: Civil Adjudications in Qing and...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: “Law in the Mongol and Post-Mongol World: The Case of Yuan China”
Please see below for information on a new article from member Macabe Keliher. “Law in the Mongol and Post-Mongol World: The Case of Yuan...
Mar 14, 2023


New in Paperback: Li Chen
"Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics" Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Philip Thai
"China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965" China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Bettine Birge
“Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang” Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Max Oidtmann
“Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet” Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Madeleine Zelin, “A Deep History of Chinese Shareholding”
ISCLH is pleased to share member and board director Madeleine Zelin‘s new publication from Law and History Review. “A Deep History of...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Maria Adele Carrai, “Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840”
Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840 Maria Adele Carrai, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Cambridge...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Frédéric Constant
“Le droit mongol dans l’État sino-mandchou (1644-1911): Entre autonomie et assimilation” Le droit mongol dans l’État sino-mandchou...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Ting Zhang, Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China Ting Zhang, University of Maryland University of Washington Press,...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Pierre-Étienne Will, Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China
Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China Pierre-Étienne Will, Collège de France Brill, 2020 Publisher’s Link:...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Wesley Chaney
“Threats to Gong: Environmental Change and Social Transformation in Northwest China” “Threats to Gong: Environmental Change and Social...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Xiaoqun Xu, “Heaven Has Eyes: A History of Chinese Law”
Heaven Has Eyes: A History of Chinese Law Xiaoqun Xu Oxford, 2020 Publisher’s Link https://global.oup.com/academic/product/heaven-has-eye...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Jason Buhi, “The Constitutional History of Macau”
New Publication: Jason Buhi, “The Constitutional History of Macau” Posted on December 13, 2021 by committeechair in Blogs, News,...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: 尤陈俊,《聚讼纷纭:清代的“健讼之风”话语及其表达性现实》
(You Chenjun, Litigation Culture in Controversy: the Discourse of “Litigious Atmosphere” and Its Representational Reality in Qing China)...
Mar 14, 2023


New Publication: Michael Ng, Political Censorship in British
New Publication: Michael Ng, Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) Michael Ng (吴海杰),...
Mar 12, 2023
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