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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Will give a talk at UC Berkeley on Oct. 23 about my forthcoming book. All are welcome if you're nearby. Excited about my first-ever visit to Berkeley Will give another talk at the University of Texas at Austin later during the same US trip. events.berkeley.edu/ccs/event/32...

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is the link to a recently published article. My preliminary attempt to take stock of and reflect on existing scholarship on a set of interrelated, important, and often complicated issues in the field of late imperial Chinese legal history and governance. openyls.law.yale.edu/entities/pub...

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Rethinking the Chinese Legal Tradition: Ideological Formations and Their Disputed Legacy

In a Confucian society like Qing China (1644–1911 CE), how often did people turn to the formal legal system to resolve disputes? To what extent did the empire become a “litigious society” despite the ...

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Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

It seems like, well, an opportune time to push this paper again. We find qualitative similarities in how the Chinese and American governments produce economic statistics, but even we couldn’t anticipate how quickly those similarities would strengthen…

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The Law of Information States: Evidence from China and the United States — Virginia Journal of International Law

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Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Dear friends, I’m excited to share that my new book is finally out. The University of Chicago Press is offering a 30% discount for the book—just use the code UCPNEW if you’re interested. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Cheers, and thank you again for being part of this journey!

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Max Planck Law @maxplancklaw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The ‘China, Law, and Society’ Initiative hosts the online lecture on 28 November. Li Chen (@lchen2024.bsky.social) examines the emergence of a late imperial legal community and its role in shaping Qing judicial culture: law.mpg.de/event/the-ri... #InitiativeEvent

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The Rise of the Qing Juridical Field and Its Impact on Judicial and Legal Culture - Max Planck Law

Drawing on the insights of prior scholarship, Professor Chen’s speech will inquire an expansive legal community in late imperial China and further challenge the once-dominant view in traditional histo...

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy Lunar New Year to you all! May this year of snake bring you happiness, good health, and success in all your endeavors.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For those interested, a virtual talk this Friday (in Chinese).

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Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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....

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Legality and Legitimacy in Authoritarian Regimes

Conventional legal and political theory tend to assume that authoritarian regimes have an inherently uneasy relationship with law: that strong legal systems fun

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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...

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12月20/21日国际学术会议：“寻找秦汉帝国：传世文献与出土文献的碰撞” (线下+线上）

12月20-21日秦汉历史国际学术会议：“寻找秦汉帝国：传世文献与出土文献的碰撞” （线下+线上）

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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

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方法｜陈利：“隐形档案”与史料深挖四步法

最近二三十年间, 欧美的人文社会科学研究领域中形成了一个所谓“档案转向” (archival turn) 的学术潮流。

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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).

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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..

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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.

The Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, China, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, date from the 9th to 13th centuries and showcase a blend of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist influences. The reclining Buddha depicted in the images represents Shakyamuni Buddha entering Nirvana, surrounded by disciples and bodhisattvas symbolizing reverence and enlightenment. These carvings, renowned for their artistic excellence, provide insight into the religious practices and cultural values of Tang and Song China, highlighting the harmonious coexistence of spiritual traditions.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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...

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Journal Article: "Concretizing the Legal Professional Community in Late Imperial China, c.1700-1900," Asian Journal of Law and Society (Oct. 2024), 1-28.

This essay, as part of a larger book project and a chapter in a forthcoming edited volume, takes the first step to concretize the "imagined community" of legal specialists in late imperial C...

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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

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Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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)

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YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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...

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Learn about The Chinese Historical Review

Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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

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Zhifan Luo @zhifan-luo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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...

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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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.

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Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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).

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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.

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“写一种有力量、有情感的法律社会学”--刘思达教授新书《法社会学信札》“后记”

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Li Chen | University of Toronto - Academia.edu

Li CHEN 陈利 received a J.D. from the University of Illinois (magna cum laude), and then a Ph.D. in Chinese History from Columbia University. He is currently…

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Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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 :).

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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:...

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Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

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

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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:...

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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).

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Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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... 🀄️📚

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Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China

"Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China" published on 20 Oct 2023 by Brill.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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....

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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

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