Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

Topic: Bad (Wo-)man, Evil Clerks and the Distance to the Law: Abduction and Adultery Stories and Their Narrators in Tamsui-Hsinchu Archives

Speaker: Chen Yun-Ru (Associate Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University)

Moderator: Li Ren-Yuan (Assistant Research Fellow, IHP, Academia Sinica)

Discussants: Matthew Sommer (Professor, Department of History, Stanford University), Zang Dongsheng (Professor, School of Law, University of Washington)

Time: August 10, 10:00-12:00 UTC+8

Venue: Online via Webex、5F Conference Room, Museum of the Institute of History & Philology, IHP, Academia Sinica

Organizer: Institutions and Society Group, IHP

“Law, Institutions and Society during the Qing” Series

Remarks: The lecture will be conducted in Mandarin. Registration is required.

Online attendance registration: https://tinyurl.com/n23nefb9

Physical attendance registration: https://forms.gle/RvswSTRLzUY25As49

Contact: Miss Hung, instihp@gmail.com

Related Works:

“Bad (Wo-)man Theory of Traditional Chinese Law: From the Vantage Points of Adultery and Abduction Cases in Tan-Hsin Archives”
http://publication.iias.sinica.edu.tw/42619091.pdf

“Cases of Adultery and Abduction in Tan-Hsin Archives: Re-examining Legal Traditions in Qing Taiwan”
https://www.ith.sinica.edu.tw/quarterly_history_look.php?l=c&id=655