This will be a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars of legal history, particularly those working on non-Western legal cultures.

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...

Snowy Winter in Toronto!

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).

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....

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...

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 ​​​

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..

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

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...

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...

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.

Socio-legal studies assocuation slsauk.bsky.social

For anyone interested in the newest and most exciting scholarship on China, this is an important venue to follow :).

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...

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...

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

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).

Here 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...

For those fluent in Chinese, please check out the table of contents, blurbs, and postface from a newly published book by Prof. Sida Liu of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong, in the form of a series of letters on important issues and methodological debates in the sociology of law.

Starter packs. Please reply/share if interested. “Chinese History&Society”: go.bsky.app/F8dqk2F “Late Imperial China”: go.bsky.app/EB214nL, “Comparative/Global Legal Studies/History”: go.bsky.app/3UAVSRu “Asian Media, Culture & Society” go.bsky.app/6NURvgw “Scandal Studies” go.bsky.app/6AZLCYD

If this trend continues long enough, we might see a replay of the situation from the centuries before 1839: instead of imposing trade terms, sanctions or high-tech bans at will, the major powers might find themselves elated just to gain access to that market.

By the way, except for monographs and edited books, most of my prior research publications on the history of late imperial Chinese law and judicial administration, early modern Sino-Western relations, and international law in relation to China, etc. can be found at utoronto.academia.edu/LiChen

Another starter pack related to my research interests, for critical or interdisciplinary studies of Asian media/culture/society. Scholars and practitioners are welcome to join. Please reply and share if interested. go.bsky.app/6NURvgw

Based on my ongoing projects, I have created a pack for people with similar research interests. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the group. go.bsky.app/6AZLCYD

Please let me know if you would like to join the group.

I strongly recommend this association for anyone with serious interest in Chinese law & history. Its members, coming from a variety of disciplines, include many of the most renowned international scholars in the related fields. The annual membership is extremely low as a bonus :).

I have gathered a substantial number of editions of the Qing Official Registers(缙绅录) as well, but also used some of the data from the link below for a project. Wonderful source for relevant projects as the team spent years compiling & organizing the data. Thankful for their work and generosity.

Scholars in this area can reply if interested in joining this list of "Late Imperial China," which will enable their accounts to show posts of all scholars on the list and is related the "Late Imperial China" Feed/Cluster. Nonspecialists can add this feed to their accounts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Greater China discussion on BlueSky doesn’t yet have the juice that China Twitter did, but lots of good people are here! A starter pack: go.bsky.app/5hu5WES

This feed, "Late Imperial China," helps collect and share posts by scholars of late imperial China (late 14th to early 20th centuries) in the cluster/list/pack of "Late Imperial China." You're welcome to add this feed to your account to stay updated about this field. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Welcome to check out this valuable Chinese collection of interviews with leading scholars, mostly in different China fields.《学术之路：跨学科国际学者对谈集》（2023年商务印书馆) "Pathways of Scholarship: Reflective and Methodological Conversations with Int'l Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences" (2023).

Train tracks run through the history of acclaimed author Zha Jianying's Chinese family. This is Part I of Zha's memoir of their journeys-www.chinafile.com/re...

Interested in Dunhuang manuscripts, medieval Chinese lit. culture, text history, etc.? Here's a discount code (71599) for 35% off my book if you order from Brill. It's already very cheap for a Brill book ($89) and has dozens of color images on high-quality paper. brill.com/display/titl... 🀄️📚

I've long dreamt of writing a review article for the field of Chinese Australian history. I wanted to trace where it fit (or didn't) within Australian national mythologies & see what happens when we view Australia through Chinese sources. Here it is: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Repost (replacing the previous pack due to technical issue). You're welcome to join this more focused group of international scholars working on late imperial China. Please feel free to share and reply if you're interested, and add hashtag #lateimperialchina to future posts. go.bsky.app/EB214nL

This list is for scholars working on late imperial China.

If you are interested in Chinese law, Chinese legal history or Chinese law and society, or would like your posts to reach people interested in these areas, you are welcome to join this list or add #Chineselaw to your posts, and share this link. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I could be wrong, but I haven't found any group for scholars of comparative/global legal studies/history (indeed, even for legal scholars/historians). This has been a big part of my research interest, so I have added one more choice if there is any other starter pack already. go.bsky.app/3UAVSRu

www.ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/chi... My upcoming lecture at Cambridge Uni, Nov. 28. Look forward to seeing colleagues and friends and having a great conversation!

Pleased 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

Hello, bsky! It's fitting to use my first post to announce our upcoming event on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Details here: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @ascmediarisk.bsky.social

With the continuing economic struggles and high rates of unemployment as well as growing Sino-U.S. tensions, there could potentially be more horrifying instances like this due to growing society-wide anxiety and discontent. Economic recovery will be crucial.

China’s job market braces for record number of fresh graduates next year – SCMP