CHC Workshop — Qing Legal Cases as Sources for Historical Research: An Introduction
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Date
16 Apr 2025
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Organiser
CHC
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Time
15:30 - 17:30
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Venue
BC201 Map
Speaker
Matthew H. Sommer
Summary
Matthew Sommer will introduce original legal case records from the local and central courts of the Qing dynasty. Sample documents from Professor Sommer’s research will be distributed in advance. After a brief introduction, we will read the sample documents and discuss them together. Participants may read the documents in advance if they have time, but this is not required.
Keynote Speaker
Matthew H. Sommer
Matthew H. Sommer (BA Swarthmore, MA U. of Washington, PHD UCLA) is the Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of SEX, LAW, AND SOCIETY IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA (Stanford 2000) and POLYANDRY AND WIFE-SELLING IN QING DYNASTY CHINA (California 2015), which was the inaugural winner of the American Society for Legal History’s Peter Gonville Stein Book Award. His latest book, THE FOX SPIRIT, THE STONE MAIDEN, AND OTHER TRANSGENDER HISTORIES FROM LATE IMPERIAL CHINA (Columbia 2024) won the John Boswell Prize from the LGBTQ+ History Association.
