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Faculty Profile
Chen, Li Ph.D. Columbia University; J.D. Illinois
Assistant Professor, UTSC
(416) 287-7352
Office: HW 430
Field: Late imperial and modern China, Chinese legal history, comparative law and society, Sino-Western relations, global history, postcolonial/cultural studies
Professor Chen’s research and teaching interests focus on Chinese law, society, culture, and foreign relations from the 15th through the 20th centuries, often through a comparative and global perspective. His most recent publication is a leading article, entitled “Law, Empire, and Historiography of Modern Sino-Western Relations: A Case Study of the 1784 Lady Hughes Controversy,” in the Law & History Review 27, no. 1 (2009), 1-53. He is one of the authors of a multinational team-project, Official Handbooks and Anthologies of Imperial China: A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography, led by Professor Pierre-Etienne Will of the College de France (book forthcoming). He is currently revising a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Law and Sensibility of Empire in the Making of Modern China, 1750-1900.” |
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