127th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2013): Merchant “Smugglers” and Wayward Daughters: Chinese Legal and Social History in Global Contexts, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries

Merchant “Smugglers” and Wayward Daughters: Chinese Legal and Social History in Global Contexts, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries

Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China 2

Saturday, January 5, 2013: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Chamber Ballroom IV (Roosevelt New Orleans)

Chair:

Harold M. Tanner, University of North Texas

Papers:

Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing
Zhao Ma, Washington University in St. Louis

Law, State Building, and the War on Smuggling in Coastal China
Philip Thai, Stanford University

Kinship Networks, Social Status, and the Creation of Property Rights in Early Modern China and England
Taisu Zhang, Yale University

Homicide at Guanyin Temple Street: Expert Testimony and Professionalization in 1920s China
Daniel Asen, Columbia University

Comment:

Jennifer M. Neighbors, University of Puget Sound

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