Constructing Diversity: Ethnicity and Legal Culture in Chinese History

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2014
Friday, April 4th
9:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College

Thomas 224

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Panel 1: Yuan and Ming Times. “The Dilemma of Ethnicity in Yuan China”

Bettine Birge, University of Southern California

Thomas 224

10:00 AM - 12:45 PM

Panel 1: Yuan and Ming Times. “Thinking about the Other in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”

David Robinson, Colgate University

Thomas 224

10:00 AM - 12:45 PM

Panel 1: Yuan and Ming Times. “Constructing Han Legal Identity: The Yuan-Ming Transition”

Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College

Thomas 224

10:00 AM - 12:45 PM
2:00 PM

Panel 2: Mongols in the Qing. “The evolution of the Qing legal policy towards the Mongols”

Frédéric Constant, University of Paris, France

Thomas 224

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel 2: Mongols in the Qing. “Khalkha Mongolian Civil Trial in Qing Dynasty”

Hui-min Lai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Thomas 224

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4:20 PM

Panel 3: General Perspectives on the Ming and Qing. “Ethnicity and Empire: Ming Legal Culture in Comparative Perspective”

Edward Farmer, University of Minnesota

Thomas 224

4:20 PM - 6:20 PM

Panel 3: General Perspectives on the Ming and Qing. "Legal Pluralism and the Nature of Empire in China"

Mark Elliott, Harvard University

Thomas 224

4:20 PM - 6:20 PM
Saturday, April 5th
10:00 AM

Panel 4: The Cross-Cultural Experience. “'Hanging Judges' and Frontier Justice: A Comparison of the Use of Capital Punishment against Indigenous People in Qing China and Nineteenth-century United States”

Thomas Buoye, University of Tulsa

Thomas 224

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel 4: The Cross-Cultural Experience. “Legal Reform in Inner Mongolia at the Turn of the 20th Century”

Liping Wang, Haverford College

Thomas 224

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1:30 PM

Panel 5: Miao and Dong in History. “Miao and Dong Customary Laws in Qiandongnan, Guizhou”

Xiaoguang Xu, Kaili University, Guizhou, China

Thomas 224

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel 5: Miao and Dong in History. “In the Name of Spirits: Miao Priest as Law-Maker and Law-Finder in West Hunan”

Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College
Bode Wang, Cultural Heritage Bureau, Fenghuang County, Hunan, China
Jinmei Ma, Fenghuang Company for Development of Miao Folk Customs and Tourism, Ltd., Fenghuang, China

Thomas 224

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
4:00 PM

Wrap Up

Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Mark Elliott, Harvard University
Paul Smith, Haverford College
Donald Sutton, Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas 224

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM