Professor Kentaro Matsubara from the University of Tokyo will present a new framework for understanding the Qing (1644-1911) property regime.

He will reinterpret the relationship between several categories of property rights and transactions that were widely used in traditional China, focusing on the particular terms denoting title and/or possession, the significance of which has only partially been brought out in scholarly debates.

In his presentation, he will discuss Japanese legal scholarship going back to the various custom surveys and related analyses in the first half of the 20th century, and reinterpret these arguments in the light of recent scholarly findings on local social structures and the diverse social dynamics that formed Qing society.

Date: Sept 11

Venue: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Harvard University

Website: www.harvard.edu

(China Daily 08/17/2012 page23)