Conférencier：Prof. Luca GABBIANI (Associate Professor, French School of Asian Studies (EFEO))

Titre: Real Estate and Law in the City Some Aspects of Everyday Life in Beijing as Reflected in Qing-era Judicial Sources



Date: Mercredi 11 septembre 2019 à 10h.
Lieu : 4F Conference Room, Library Building, National Palace Museum, Taipei

Résumé :
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.

Organisateurs :
- EFEO Centre Taipei
- National Palace Museum

La conférence est donnée en chinois.

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