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...

Jiansong yu jiansong: Qing dai zhouxian susong de jiben jiegou 賤訟與健訟：清代州縣訴訟的基本結構 [ Suppressing Litigation and Litigious Practice: The...

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