Recent Chinese Legal History Research of Interest

Dear ISCLH Members:

Fellow member Roy Sturgeon (rsturgeo@tulane.edu) would like to share the following articles and books related to Chinese legal history that he has come across in his recent research.

Articles and Chapters

• Chen Ben, “When the rule of law met rule by the party: the conflicts between Baptist schools and the local Guomindang in Republican Suzhou.” Journal of Modern Chinese History, vol. 13, no. 2 (2019): 274–295. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2019.1688950

• Yue Du, “Policies and Counterstrategies: State-Sponsored Filiality and False Accusation in Qing China.” International Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (2019): 79–97. https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/S1479591419000111

• Maura Dykstra, “Cross-Jurisdictional Trade and Contract Enforcement in Qing China.” International Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (2019): 99–115. https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/S1479591419000123

• Richard Horowitz, “Protégé Problems: Qing Officials, Extraterritoriality, and Global Integration in Nineteenth-Century China.” In The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics, edited by Daniel S. Margolies, Umut Özsu, Maïa Pal, and Ntina Tzouvala. Routledge Press, 2019. https://www.routledge.com/The-Extraterritoriality-of-Law-History-Theory-Politics/Margolies-Ozsu-Pal-Tzouvala/p/book/9780815378587

• Robert H. Hu, “Arthur C. Y. Yao (1906-2004): A Pioneer Chinese Professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law.” St. Mary’s Law Journal, vol. 51, no. 1 (2020): 131–171. https://commons.stmarytx.edu/thestmaryslawjournal/vol51/iss1/4

• Helena Jaskov, “The Negotiated Geography of the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) and the Role of the Jesuits.” Late Imperial China, vol. 40, no. 2 (2019): 45–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/late.2019.0007

• Glenn D. Tiffert, Review of Dead Souls. Education About Asia, vol. 24, no. 3 (2019): 70–72. https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/dead-souls/

• Martin Purbrick, “Patriotic Chinese Triads and Secret Societies: From the Imperial Dynasties, to Nationalism, to Communism.” Asian Affairs, vol. 50, no. 3 (2019): 305–322. https://doi.org/doi:10.1080/03068374.2019.1636515

• Margaret Mih Tillman, “Religious liberty for the Chinese child: missionary debates in the 1930s.” Journal of Modern Chinese History, vol. 13, no. 2 (2019): 249–273. https://doi.org/doi:10.1080/17535654.2019.1688975

• Xiaowei Zheng, “Constitutionalist Pu Dianjun and his new cultural movement.” Journal of Modern Chinese History, vol. 13, no. 2 (2019): 226–248. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2019.1688991

Books

• Janos Jany, Legal Traditions in Asia: History, Concepts and Laws. Springer: 2020. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030437275

• Lin Li, Jihong Mo, Guoqiang Zhai, editors. Constitutional Development in China, 1982-2012. Springer: 2020. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813292598

• Max W. L. Wong, Chinese Marriage and Social Change: The Legal Abolition of Concubinage in Hong Kong. Springer: 2020. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811516436

• Han Zhai, The Constitutional Identity of Contemporary China: The Unitary System and Its Internal Logic. Brill: 2019. https://brill.com/view/title/39491

• Jinfan Zhang, The History of Chinese Legal Civilization Ancient China: From About 21st Century B.C. to 1840 A.D. (Vol. 1) Springer: 2020. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811010279