PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Present

Associate Professor of History, Department Chair,  University of Tulsa

Research Associate Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

Editorial Board of Qingshi Yanjiu (Qing History Research), published by Qing History Research Center, Renmin University, and Beijing

1991-92

1987-91

Director, China Statistics Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Assistant Director and Managing Editor, China Statistics Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago.

PUBLICATIONS

With Zhang Shiming and Na Heya eds. 世界 学者论 中国 传统 法律 文化 （Shijie xuezhe lun Zhongguo chuantong falu wenhua） (Recent International Scholarship on Traditional Chinese Legal Culture) Beijing: Falu Chubanshe, 2010.

"18 世紀山東的殺害親人案件:貧窮,絕望與訟案審理中的政治操作," [(郭威廷, 譯], (Killing the Family in Eighteenth-Century Shandong: Poverty, Despair and Judicial Politics), (Guo Weiting, translator) in <明清法律運作中的權力與文化> （Power and Culture in the Practice of Ming-Qing Law) edited by 邱澎生(Chiu Pengsheng), 陳熙遠 (Chen Xiyuan). Taibei: Lianjing Chubansi, 2009, pp. 255-74.

过失杀人，市场与道德经济：18世纪中国财产权的暴力纠纷， [张世明，刘亚从， 陈兆肆，译）（Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China）Zhang Shiming, Liu Yacong, Chen Zhaosi, translators）

“Filial Felons: Leniency and Legal Reasoning in Qing China,” in Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment, edited by Robert C. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007, pp. 109-24.

"存留养亲：清朝死刑复核的经验" [付瑶，译] (Convicted Caregivers: Late Imperial Lessons in Death Penalty Reviews) （Fu Yao, translator) in 《中华法系国际学术研讨会文集》 edited by 张中秋 （Zhang Zhongqiu）. Beijing: 中国政法大学出版社 （ Zhongguo Zhengfa Daxue Chubanshe）, pp. 250-59.

2006

"死刑与儒家的公平正义:中国传统法律有关宽宥的限度," [张世明， 朱玛珑，译] (Capital Punishment and Confucian Justice: The Limits of Leniency under Traditional Chinese Law), （Zhang Shiming, Zhu Malong, translators）<清史研究> (Studies in Qing History), 4 (November, 2006): pp. 51-58.

2004

“Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence:  Why County Courts Failed to Prevent Violent Disputes over Property in Eighteenth-century China” in Contract and Property in Early Modern China, edited by Jonathan Ocko and Madeline Zelin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

2003

"司法檔案以及清代中國的法律,經濟,與社會 的研究, "  [邱澎生, 譯] (Law, Economy, and Society: Recent Trends in Chinese Legal  Studies in the United States), (Chiu Pengsheng, translator) <法制是 研究> (Legal History Review) (December, 2003) 4: 217-244.

Study Guide to China: Adapting the Past. Confronting the Future. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Publications, 2003.

2002

With Kirk Denton, Bruce Dickson, Barry Naughton, and Martin Whyte, China: Adapting the Past. Confronting the Future. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Publications, 2003.

2000

Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

1999

“Seeking Truth from Facts: The Scholarship of Albert Feuerwerker,” <近代中國史研究通訊> (Newsletter for Modern Chinese History), (1999) 28: pp. 63-76.

1995

“Suddenly Murderous Intent Arose: Bureaucratization and Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century Qing Homicide Reports,” Late Imperial China, (December 1995) 16.2: pp. 95-130.

1994

With 张仁则 （Zhang Renze）, “从传家宝到商品：乾隆年代 （1736~1795年）广东省土地商品化与土地产权演化的过程， (From patrimony to commodity: the commercialization of land in Guangdong province during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), in 《中国当代土地制度论文集〉 (China’s contemporary land system), edited by 文贯中 （G. J. Wen）, pp. 17-36.  Changsha, Hunan: Hunan Kexue Jishu Chubanshe, 1994.

1993

“From Patrimony to Commodity: Changing Concepts of Land and Social Conflict in Guangdong Province during the Qianlong Reign (1736-95),” Late Imperial China, (December 1993) 14.2:  pp. 19-46.

1991

A Study Guide to the Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Publications, 1991.  Revised second edition

1990

“Economic Change and Rural Violence in Guangdong During the Eighteenth Century,” Peasant Studies, (Summer 1990) Vol. 17. 4:  pp. 233-259. 

1988-91

Managing Editor, “China Statistics Series,” ten volumes published by Praeger Publishers.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-century China: Cases from Guangdong, Sichuan, and Shandong” Séminaire: Documents Judiciaires et Société à la fin de L’empire, Collège de France, Paris, France, March 31.

“Christian Chroniclers of Chinese Cruelty: Western Misperceptions of Chinese Criminal Justice,” Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan Brown Bag Lunch Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 19.

“Xingke Tiben” (Routine memorials to the Board of Punishments), Ming-Qing Historical Documents Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2.

"Chinese Legal History in Historical Perspective,” Keynote Speaker for the University of Tulsa Law School's Asian American Awareness Day Luncheon, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 21.

“Only China’s Past is Unpredictable; Late Imperial Economic and Legal History,” International Conference on Presenting China: Theory and Pedagogy, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, October 17-18.

“Circumstantial Evidence: ‘Living Law’ in Ming and Early Qing China,” panel discussant, Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, Georgia April 3-6.

“’I Would Rather Die at Home’: Scapegoating Women in Qing Capital Cases,” the Western Conference of Association for Asian Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah,  September 20-22.

“Using Legal Cases to Teach Qing Society and Government,” Faculty Development Institute on East Asia, John Paul II High School, Plano, Texas, December 4.

“Convicted Caregivers and Filial Felons: Late Imperial Lessons in Death Penalty Reviews,” Symposium of International Academic Conference on China’s Legal Family, Legal History Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China, September 16-17.

“Japan, 1945 to the Present,” Faculty Development Seminar on East Asia, Oklahoma Institute for Teaching on East Asia, University of Oklahoma--Schusterman Campus, Tulsa Oklahoma, March 11.

2005

“Killing the Family in Eighteenth-Century Shandong: Poverty, Despair and Judicial Politics,” Workshop on Power and Culture in the Functioning of the Ming-Qing Legal System, Institute of Philology, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan, October 13-15.

“Recent American Scholarship on Qing Legal History,” Chengchi Forum for Legal History, Center for Fundamental Jurisprudence, National Chengchi University, Wenshan, Taipei, Taiwan, October 12.

“Xiaozi zhongzui: lun rujia sixiang yu da Qing jielu” (Filial Felons: Confucian Thought and the Qing Code), Ming-Qing Archives and Historical Research Conference in Honor of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Number One Historical Archives, Beijing, China, September 19-25.

“Punishment, Pathos, and Imperial Prerogative: Rhetoric and Representation in Capital Case Records,” Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, Illinois, March 31-April 3.

“Bare Sticks and Naked Pity: Repression, Representation, and Reality of Crime in Eighteenth Century China,” presented at 119^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 6-9, 2005.

2004

“Ruler, State and Economy in China and the West,” presented at International Symposium on Financial Change and Entrepreneurial Culture in Modern China, Modern History Institute, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 15-17, 2004.

“Ruler, State and Economy in Eighteenth-Century China: The Economic and Political Significance of the Qing Imperial Household Department,” presented at Modern East Asian History Symposium to Honor Albert Feuerwerker and Ernest Young, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 5-6, 2004.

“Rethinking the Nineteenth Century: Legal History,” presented at “Rethinking the Legacies of Nineteenth-Century China” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 9-10, 2004.

2003

“Sifa dangan yiji Qingdai Zhongguo de falu, jingji yu shehui de yanjiu,” (Law, Economy, and Society: Recent Trends in Chinese Legal  Studies in the United States), presented at The International Symposium on the Tradition, Methodology and Trend of Legal History in Memorial of Professor Tai Yen-Hui, Taipei, Taiwan, November 29-30, 2003.

“Sixing yu Rujia de gongping zhengyi: Zhongguo chuantong falu you guan kuanyoude xiandu (Capital Punishment and Confucian Justice: The Limits of Leniency under Traditional Chinese Law), presented at Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan, September 26, 2003.

“Imperial Power and Individual Crime: Imposing Elite Ideology in Eighteenth-century Rural China,” presented at Ming-Qing Studies Group, Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taibei Taiwan, July 11, 2003.

“Confucian Justice and Capital Crime: Cases and Rules in Qing Legal Reasoning,” presented at 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York City, March 29, 2003.

2002

“Zhidu bianqian lilun he Zhongguo shiba shiji di jingji lishi (Theories of institutional change and eighteenth-century Chinese economic history) presented at the Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taibei Taiwan, September 27, 2002.

“Compassionate Confucianism versus the ‘Strike Hard’ Campaign: Chinese Capital Punishment in Historical Perspective,” guest lecture sponsored by the Departments of History, Political Science and Criminal Justice at Marist College, February 11, 2002.

2001

“Confucian Justice and Homicide:  Cases and Rules in Qing Legal Reasoning,” presented at “Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History,” University of Chicago, October 12-14, 2001

2000

“Yishi yu jingji yanbian: shiba shiji di tudi shangyehua” (Ideology and Economic Change: Commercialization of Land in Eighteenth-century China), presented at Ming-Qing Studies Group, Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taibei Taiwan, July 4, 2000.

“Qingdai mingan yu fating di chengxu: falu wenjian yu daode gushi,” (Homicide Cases and the Judicial Process in Qing China: legal document and Moral Tale), “Cases” Study Group, Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taibei Taiwan, June 21, 2000.

“International Adoptions in China: A Report from the Field,” presented at Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan Brown Bag Lunch Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 21, 2000.