Looking for Cases in Song & Ming Law: Legal Culture & Legal Reasoning in Premodern China
A day-long conference
Saturday, May 17, 2003
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Charlotte Furth (History, USC), Moderator
10:00 am -- Morning Session: Law in The Song Dynasty
BRIAN MCKNIGHT (East Asian Studies, University of Arizona), “How Did Cases Become Precedents in the Song?”
HUGH SCOGIN, “Chinese Interest in Case Law”
Discussant: Bettine Birge(East Asian Languages & Cultures, USC)
1:30 pm -- Afternoon Session: Law in the Ming Dynasty
YANHONG WU (East Asian Studies, Princeton), “Case Collections as Legal Documents in Late Ming China”
YONGLIN JIANG (History, Oklamhoma State Univ.), “Representing Cases: Discourse and Casebook Formation in Late Ming China”
Discussant: Matthew H. Sommer (History, Stanford Univ.)
A Southern California China Colloquium, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and co-sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center, and USC College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences, and the Southern California Consortium on International Studies.
For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
