International Society for Chinese Law and History

ISCLH aims to promote better understanding of Chinese law and society from historical and comparative perspectives among scholars around the world. Join us!

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The ISCLH Newsletter (June-July 2026) has been published!

You can access the Nesletter by visiting
https://t.co/nER0OlCEuJ.

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New Publication from ISCLH Member: Liang Cai, Convict Politics: From Utopia to Serfdom in Early China (221 BCE–23 CE).

https://t.co/g53iD1KjMW

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ISCLH Book Review Series Update: Prof. BAI Yang reviewed Prof. DENG Jianpeng's book on Qing's county litigation.

https://t.co/PbPv1SbPO0

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ISCLH Book Review Series Update!
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You can now find Prof. Billy So's response to Prof. Tam on our website!

https://t.co/lHNSAifK6Y

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ISCLH Book Review Series Update!

Prof. Ka Chai Tam 譚家齊 (HKBU) reviews Billy So 蘇基朗 and Sufumi So 蘇壽富美's book.

https://t.co/vpRd6dkAvc

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ISCLH Book Review Series Update!

Prof. Ka Chai Tam 譚家齊 (HKBU) reviews Billy So 蘇基朗 and Sufumi So 蘇壽富美's book.

https://t.co/vpRd6dkAvc

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The 2025 Januray-Febrary issue of the ISCLH Newsletter has been published!

You can access the Nesletter by visiting https://t.co/ROA7BIizOQ

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This award, sponsored by the LGBTQ+ History Association, recognizes outstanding books on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history published in 2023 or 2024.

Congratulations to Prof. Sommer for this remarkable recognition of his contribution to LGBTQ+ histories!

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Prof. Matthew Sommer, Director of ISCLH, 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 Imperial China (Columbia, 2024)!
https://t.co/ya0Je9bPu4

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Prof. Matthew Sommer, Director of ISCLH, 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 Imperial China (Columbia, 2024)!
https://t.co/ya0Je9bPu4

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Honorable mentions awarded to Prof. Haiyan Lee for A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination (UChicago, 2023), and to Prof. Michael Ng for Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) (Cambridge, 2022).

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ISCLH 2024 Book Prize Winner(s) Announced!
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The winner of the 2024 biennial Book Prize is Professor Tristan Brown’s book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023).

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ISCLH 2024 Book Prize Winner(s) Announced!
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ISCLH 2024 Book Prize Winner(s) Announced!
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Welcome to join via Zoom! https://t.co/Lj5nvLoOsv

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ISCLH Book Review Series update: 從肉刑到流刑：漢唐之間刑罰制度的變革[From Corporal Punishment to Banishment: The Evolution of Penalty System during Han and Tang Dynasties]. By 陳俊強[Chan Chun-Keung], reviewed by LI Xiang (University of Würzburg).
https://t.co/98ud68wvsP

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Congratulations to ISCLH member @TristanGBrown's Monograph Laws of the Land for winning the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History of American Historical Association (2024)!

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We are thrilled to announce that the inaugural issue of the ISCLH newsletter (September 2024 Issue) has been published. Please feel free to share this newsletter and spread the word about the amazing work that our members are doing around the world!

https://t.co/3kIEM2ZSq9

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We are pleased to announce that the submission system for the Sixth Biennial Conference of the ISCLH is now open. Please submit your proposals by visiting https://t.co/OrCFqywKNs.

We appreciate all submissions and look forward to seeing you in Beijing in July, 2025!

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Call for Papers: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Chinese Law and History (Beijing, July 22-23, 2025).

https://t.co/U7uYX5l5rh.

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Call for Papers: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Chinese Law and History (Beijing, July 22-23, 2025).

https://t.co/U7uYX5l5rh.

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The inaugural review is by Yifan ZHENG from UC Berkeley, who reviewed 張忠煒 [Zhang Zhongwei]'s 秦漢律令法系研究續編 [Research on the Legal Systems of Qin and Han Dynasties Part II].

https://t.co/1sR4e0dqtO

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ISCLH is excited to announce the launch of our new Book Review Series. In particular, we invite scholars to review Chinese works in English and English works in Chinese. These reviews will be published on our website and social media platforms.

We appreciate all submissions!

[International Society for Chinese Law and History @isclh2014]

ISCLH is excited to announce the launch of our new Book Review Series. In particular, we invite scholars to review Chinese works in English and English works in Chinese. These reviews will be published on our website and social media platforms.

We appreciate all submissions!