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China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle For Chinese Legal Modernity In the Early Twentieth Century
11/11/2019 @ 8:00 pm
Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures to be given by Madeleine Zelin
The University Seminars office & Columbia University Press are pleased to announce this year’s Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures to be given by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.
CHINA SEMI-INCORPORATED: THE BATTLE FOR A CHINESE
LEGAL MODERNITY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019, 8 PM
I: The “Company” Will Save Us:
Utopian Visions of the Corporation in Late Qing China
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019, 8 PM
II: Local Knowledge, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019, 8 PM
III: What is Law when East meets West: The Lessons of the Ming
Sung Umbrella Factory Case in the Shanghai International Mixed Court
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