JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利
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It seems like, well, an opportune time to push this paper again. We find qualitative similarities in how the Chinese and American governments produce economic statistics, but even we couldn’t anticipate how quickly those similarities would strengthen…
Dear friends, I’m excited to share that my new book is finally out.
The University of Chicago Press is offering a 30% discount for the book—just use the code UCPNEW if you’re interested.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Cheers, and thank you again for being part of this journey!
A gift article from NYT on China's suspending of rare earth exports. The nearly 2000 comments by readers are particularly worth reading :)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
This will be a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars of legal history, particularly those working on non-Western legal cultures.
A virtual talk by Professor Ruoyun Bai on women-centered TV drama in China this Thursday evening (April 23). mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3TpAIt6plC...
Remembering Professor Harriet Zurndorfer (1946-2026) of Leiden University. ://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GBGiQmAkKupx7yPbKYlHrA
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This is the link to a recently published article. My preliminary attempt to take stock of and reflect on existing scholarship on a set of interrelated, important, and often complicated issues in the field of late imperial Chinese legal history and governance.
openyls.law.yale.edu/entities/pub...
The ‘China, Law, and Society’ Initiative hosts the online lecture on 28 November. Li Chen (@lchen2024.bsky.social) examines the emergence of a late imperial legal community and its role in shaping Qing judicial culture: law.mpg.de/event/the-ri... #InitiativeEvent
Snowy Winter in Toronto!
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利
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缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)
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In a Confucian society like Qing China (1644–1911 CE), how often did people turn to the formal legal system to resolve disputes? To what extent did the empire become a “litigious society” despite the ...
Drawing on the insights of prior scholarship, Professor Chen’s speech will inquire an expansive legal community in late imperial China and further challenge the once-dominant view in traditional histo...
An article by Professor Li Chen reflecting on the history and historiography of the modern system/regime of international law and how it can be reexamined and reimagined in the rapidly changing global context of international relations and politics.
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Want to be part of the ASLH Early Career Virtual Legal History Workshop in AY2025-26? Hosted by Dirk Hartog & Michelle McKinley. Here's the Call. Application deadline: June 30, 2025 #LegalHistory
