Seminar: Luca GABBIANI
11 SEPTEMBER 19
Speaker：Prof. Luca GABBIANI (Associate Professor, French School of Asian Studies (EFEO))
Title: Real Estate and Law in the City Some Aspects of Everyday Life in Beijing as Reflected in Qing-era Judicial Sources
Date: Wednesday, September 11 2019. 10:00 a.m.
Venue: 4F Conference Room, Library Building, National Palace Museum, Taipei
Abstract:
This talk will be based on a series criminal cases, most of which I have found in the holdings of the National Palace Museum Library. These cases are set in 18th and early 19th century Beijing and link real estate assets with financial swindles. The main objective of the presentation will be to introduce the audience to how, basing themselves on such judicial cases, historians can provide an innovative description of the economic and social environment of the city, which was at the time the capital of the Qing empire. It will start by a brief sketch of the history of the city and of its institutional framework. It will then turn to specific examples of financial crime case
records, in order to shed light on the specifics of these cases and on what they reveal of the workings of the local economy as well as on the inner workings of the city’s social fabric. To conclude, it will seek to put these results in perspective, by bringing into the picture some elements of comparison related to other urban settings in China as well as to examples drawn from the European experience at the time.
Organizers :
- EFEO Taipei Center
- National Palace Museum
The talk will be given in chinese. Registration is not required.
lecture
Title: Real Estate and Law in the City Some Aspects of Everyday Life in Beijing as Reflected in Qing-era Judicial Sources
Date: Wednesday, September 11 2019. 10:00 a.m.
Venue: 4F Conference Room, Library Building, National Palace Museum, Taipei
Abstract:
This talk will be based on a series criminal cases, most of which I have found in the holdings of the National Palace Museum Library. These cases are set in 18th and early 19th century Beijing and link real estate assets with financial swindles. The main objective of the presentation will be to introduce the audience to how, basing themselves on such judicial cases, historians can provide an innovative description of the economic and social environment of the city, which was at the time the capital of the Qing empire. It will start by a brief sketch of the history of the city and of its institutional framework. It will then turn to specific examples of financial crime case
records, in order to shed light on the specifics of these cases and on what they reveal of the workings of the local economy as well as on the inner workings of the city’s social fabric. To conclude, it will seek to put these results in perspective, by bringing into the picture some elements of comparison related to other urban settings in China as well as to examples drawn from the European experience at the time.
Organizers :
- EFEO Taipei Center
- National Palace Museum
The talk will be given in chinese. Registration is not required.
lecture