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Shuang Chen
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Associate Professor of History @ Univ. of Iowa. Chinese history, social and economic history, law and society, demography. Author of State-Sponsored Inequality (SUP 2017). President, International Society for Chinese Law and History (2024- ).
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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!

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ISCLH Newsletter, 2025 Januray-Febrary Issue
We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 Januray-Febrary issue of the ISCLH Newsletter has been published. Please feel free to share this newsletter and spread the word about the amazing work that ou...
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February 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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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).
January 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Big congratulations to Professor Tristan Brown and Professors Haiyan Lee and Michael Ng for their well deserved recognition!
ISCLH 2024 Book Prize Winner(s) Announced! The winner is Professor Tristan Brown’s book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023). Honorable mentions have been awarded to Professor Haiyan Lee and Professor Michael Ng.
December 23, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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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...
寻找秦汉帝国:传世文献与出土文献的碰撞 | 学术会议
欢迎大家莅临珠海或线上参会!
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December 14, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Join us for Yingyao Wang’s book talk next Friday EST.
Zoom ID: 852 364 4345
Passcode: sociology
November 29, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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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).
November 29, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Really appreciate the follow-all function in the starter packs.
We added some publishing houses in this starter pack. Please do not hesitate to circulate and suggest other ones 👇

go.bsky.app/3EeLSep
November 26, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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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
November 25, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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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)
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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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...
Learn about The Chinese Historical Review
Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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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).
November 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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!
ISCLH has become one of the few most respected and influential professional associations for international scholars of Chinese law and history (broadly defined) and its members have won a series of prestigious book awards from major academic associations since its founding in 2014.
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November 18, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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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/ 🀄️📚
清代缙绅録搜索
中国历史官员-清代 China Government Employee Database – Qing (CGED-Q) 量化数据库搜索系统
vis.cse.ust.hk
November 18, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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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...
November 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM