The 2025 Januray-Febrary issue of the ISCLH Newsletter has veen published. Please feel free to check out the amazing work our members are doing around the world! www.chineselawandhistory.com/post/isclh-n...

Exciting news to start the New Year! Professor Matthew Sommer, Director of lSCLH, has been named the co-winner of the 2025 John Boswell Prize for his groundbreaking book, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late lmperial China (Columbia University Press,2024).

Big congratulations to Professor Tristan Brown and Professors Haiyan Lee and Michael Ng for their well deserved recognition!

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 link/参会注册地址: notredame.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST. Zoom ID: 852 364 4345 Passcode: sociology

Please 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).

Really appreciate the follow-all function in the starter packs.

One 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

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...

I created a starter pack for sociologists studying China: go.bsky.app/NetJdDm. We study China’s labor, gender, family, inequality, organizations, education, professions, media, civil society, protests, immigration, as well as politics and history. Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).

The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) has also landed on Bluesky 🎆 Please feel free to follow the account for updates of the society’s recent activities!

Since I have a lot of new followers, including many in Chinese studies, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our online search platform for Qing officials recorded in the 缙绅录 database, as well as exam degree holders and their kin recorded in 同年齿录 vis.cse.ust.hk/searchjsl/ 🀄️📚

For some reason, the following link seems to work better for the starter pack. Please try this if the original link keeps on generating error messages. bsky.app/starter-pack...