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
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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 ​​​

Part 1 of our special issue "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" is out, open-access, with 10 articles & an Introduction
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctpa/9/4. The remaining 14 pieces are out OnlineFirst. Thank you to our contributors! @annenbergpenn.bsky.social @cdcspenn.bsky.social

1. How seriously did late imperial China's rulers treat their pets and/or job of archiving their everyday lives? Here're 2 registers from the No. 1 Historical Archives of the Qing royal family's cats and dogs (with names & years of birth/death). Two cats died after 9 years & one dog after 15 years.

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).

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.

We'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.

For some different benefits from "feeds", three "Lists" with experts in the fields you can click to add to your account. Let me know if you're an expert to be added.
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Professor Chen's Chinese anthology has finally been made available for purchase now. Here is its introduction with useful summaries of each chapter and the methodological approaches underlying them!

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.
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A series of interesting and insightful interviews with accomplished scholars!

I'm also giving it a try on Bluesky even though I have had no Twitter/X account before.

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...

Professor Chen's first Chinese anthology, long in the making, is expected to be published in the next two weeks or so!

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.
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