In Memoriam: Professor Janet Theiss (1964-2025)

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Janet Theiss, an eminent historian of women, gender, law, and society in late imperial China, and a long-standing member of the International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH). A professor of history at the University of Utah, Professor Theiss’s work, including Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China, reshaped our understanding of gender, morality, legal culture, and social order in the Qing dynasty.

Professor Theiss was admired not only for her pioneering scholarship but also for her extraordinary generosity as a mentor and colleague. Her intellectual depth, kindness, and commitment to the scholarly community have left an enduring legacy in the study of Chinese law and society and in the lives of those she guided and inspired. Her passing is a profound loss to our Society and to the wider academic community. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her family, friends, students, and colleagues.

我们怀着悲痛的心情，沉痛悼念中国法律与历史国际学会资深会员、著名汉学家、犹他大学历史学系戴真兰教授。戴真兰教授是研究帝制中国晚期妇女、性别、法律与社会史的杰出学者。她的专著Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China开创性地重塑了学界对清代性别、道德体系、法律文化与社会秩序的理解。

戴真兰教授不仅以其学术成就深受敬重，更以其慷慨无私的师者风范令人景仰。她深邃的学术洞见、温厚的品格以及对学术共同体的热忱奉献，在中国法律与社会史领域以及众多受其启迪的后学心中留下了深远的影响。她的逝世是我们学会乃至国际汉学界的重大损失。谨此向戴真兰教授的亲属、友人、学生与同仁致以诚挚慰问。