Li Chen多伦多大学陈利
@lchen2024.bsky.social
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”.
China Research in the Cloud 云里阅天下(中国研究)@yunliyuetianxia.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn 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. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KicbPZN01p...
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...
Rethinking the Chinese Legal Tradition: Ideological Formations and Their Disputed Legacy
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 ...
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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...
4月23/24日讲座｜多伦多大学白若云教授：以《不完美受害人》为例谈中国女性主义电视剧
4月23/24日云端讲座｜多伦多大学白若云教授以《不完美受害人》为例谈中国女性主义电视剧
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Remembering Professor Harriet Zurndorfer (1946-2026) of Leiden University. ://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GBGiQmAkKupx7yPbKYlHrA @yingaa.bsky.social
缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)
缅怀荷兰莱顿大学汉学家宋汉理教授(Harriet Zurndorfer, 1946–2026)
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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…
The Law of Information States: Evidence from China and the United States — Virginia Journal of International Law
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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!
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
The Rise of the Qing Juridical Field and Its Impact on Judicial and Legal Culture - Max Planck Law
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...
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This will be a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars of legal history, particularly those working on non-Western legal cultures.
Mitra Sharafi@mitrasharafi.bsky.social · last yr.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
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...
China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies (Gift Article)
Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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Happy Lunar New Year to you all! May this year of snake bring you happiness, good health, and success in all your endeavors.
For those interested, a virtual talk this Friday (in Chinese).
China Research in the Cloud 云里阅天下(中国研究)@yunliyuetianxia.bsky.social · 2y agoA virtual talk in Chinese by Professor Li Chen, "Who are the Victims: Sentimental Politics, Injury Discourses and Revengeful Violence in International Politics," at 7:30-9:30 am, Jan. 10, Eastern Time). 北京1月10日晚8:30陈利老师线上讲座 “谁是受害者？国际关系中的情感政治、伤害话语和报复性暴力". mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jyQAkqmfbw...
New paper posted to SSRN, a few more to come later this week. The primary claim in this one is that legality and authoritarianism can be politically and administratively synergistic. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Legality and Legitimacy in Authoritarian Regimes
Conventional legal and political theory tend to assume that authoritarian regimes have an inherently uneasy relationship with law: that strong legal systems fun
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A virtual conference: "In Search of Early Chinese Empires: The Dynamics between Excavated Manuscripts and Transmitted Texts"; Easter Time: (1) 7:30 pm, Dec. 20-- 4 am Dec. 21; (2) 7:30 pm, Dec. 21-- 4am Dec. 22, 2024 Zoom registration link: notredame.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
12月20/21日国际学术会议：“寻找秦汉帝国：传世文献与出土文献的碰撞” (线下+线上）
12月20-21日秦汉历史国际学术会议：“寻找秦汉帝国：传世文献与出土文献的碰撞” （线下+线上）
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A chapter from the recently published Chinese anthology "Law, Knowledge, and Power in the Age of Empire," providing some critical reflections on the use and analysis of historical archives in the field of Chinese (legal) history. t.cn/A6mCvA2N
方法｜陈利：“隐形档案”与史料深挖四步法
最近二三十年间, 欧美的人文社会科学研究领域中形成了一个所谓“档案转向” (archival turn) 的学术潮流。
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After twenty years of field work and digital collection, there are inevitably some intriguing or truly remarkable items in my collection that I may share from time to time, including interesting samples from a variety of legal texts and judicial archives from the Qing period (1644-1911).
Titled "Law, Knowledge & Power in the Age of Empire," its first 5 chapters focus on the history of Sino-Western relations and early modern international law & politics. The next 5 chapters are about Qing China's legal culture & juridical field, plus 4 chapters on archives, teaching, interview, etc..
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利@lchen2024.bsky.social · 2y agoPleased to share a Chinese anthology of my research articles that will be published this month. With 14 chapters, it includes most of my research articles over the last fifteen years outside the monographs. It took 4 years for retranslating/editing/revising/proofreading. More info. at t.cn/A6n3tcDh
Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST. Zoom ID: 852 364 4345 Passcode: sociology
Le Lin@zedzeppelin2048.bsky.social · 2y agoPlease mark your calendar for Dec. 6, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET, for @yingyaowang.bsky.social ’s talk on her wonderful new book “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State” (Columbia University Press, 2024).
Took many pictures during my fall 2023 visiting professorship at Peking Univ. Here's the iconic Reclining Shakyamuni Buddha entering Nirvana at the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, PRC, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (dated 9th-13th centuries) with a blend of Buddhist, Confucian & Taoist influences.
Despite a lot of recent scholarship on early modern Chinese legal culture & judicial practice, China historians have long faced evidentiary hurdles in determining the size and composition of the juridical field. Here's my preliminary attempt as part of a book ms. www.academia.edu/42164749/Jou...
Journal Article: "Concretizing the Legal Professional Community in Late Imperial China, c.1700-1900," Asian Journal of Law and Society (Oct. 2024), 1-28.
This essay, as part of a larger book project and a chapter in a forthcoming edited volume, takes the first step to concretize the "imagined community" of legal specialists in late imperial C...
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The printed version of this book's Introduction (in Chinese) is now available at utoronto.academia.edu/LiChen. For my English-language publications, orcid.org/0000-0002-84...
Li Chen | University of Toronto - Academia.edu
Li CHEN 陈利 received a J.D. from the University of Illinois (magna cum laude), and then a Ph.D. in Chinese History from Columbia University. He is currently…
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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利@lchen2024.bsky.social · 2y agoHere is the (Chinese) introduction to the Chinese anthology of my research articles over the last fifteen years. The link for preorder is included near the end of the article. mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI5...
Please help share the link & Starter Pack of this association with all scholars interested in Chinese law & history. Its members include many accomplished scholars in the fields. You're welcome to visit chineselawandhistory.com and its next conference at the Peking Law School in July 2024.
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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利@lchen2024.bsky.social · 2y agoOne more useful starter pack from "International Society for Chinese Law and Society" and Its related "List" of experts in Chinese law & history: bsky.app/profile/did:... go.bsky.app/4uAxhFw
For anyone interested in the newest and most exciting scholarship on China, this is an important venue to follow :).
China Research in the Cloud 云里阅天下(中国研究)@yunliyuetianxia.bsky.social · 2y agoWe've featured the newest & best scholarship on China for 4 years. Welcome to follow us. Managed by@ruoyunbai.bsky.social @lchen2024.bsky.social and a committee of leading China scholars including @zhangtaisu.bsky.social @yingaa.bsky.social @nianshen.bsky.social and others.
My new book in 2025， Mapping Asia (《制造亚洲：一部地图上的历史》，广西师范大学出版社2025)
Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc... Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
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Useful Starter Packs Chinese History go.bsky.app/F8dqk2F Late Imperial China go.bsky.app/EB214nL Comparative Law: go.bsky.app/3UAVSRu China Sociologists: go.bsky.app/NetJdDm China Science & Tech. go.bsky.app/LCxEqEy Media, Culture & Society go.bsky.app/6NURvgw Scandal Studies go.bsky.app/6AZLCYD
On Dec 4 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host a session featuring @drjcw.bsky.social’s project titled “Chinese American or American Chinese?: WeChat and the Hybrid Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/8951907632...
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I've updated the "Sociologists Studying China Starter Pack" to include not only more sociologists but also historians, political theorists, political scientists, historical IR scholars, cultural anthropologists, critical geographers, & media scholars who examine Chinese society from various angles.
Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words. (Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol
American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 2y agoJust published on APSR First View: "The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts" by Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
