A workshop co-sponsored by Harvard-Yenching Institute and Kyoto University Hakubi Center
13:30 ‒ 13:40 Welcoming Remarks
13:40 ‒ 15:00 Panel 1: Land Orders
Max Oidtmann (Georgetown University) – Kökenuur/Qinghai in the 1780s-1820s: A Tripartite Legal Order and the Lay of the Land
Erdenchuluu Khohchahar (Kyoto University and Harvard-Yenching Institute) – Land Grant System: A Legal History of Land in Mongolia
15:00 ‒ 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 ‒ 16:40 Panel 2: Land Conflicts
Wesley Chaney (Stanford University) – Post-Rebellion Land Disputes on the Sino-Tibetan Border, 1870-1880
Eric Schluessel (Harvard University) – Land-Holding Pious Endowments Under Chinese Law in Twentieth-Century Xinjiang
16:40 ‒ 18:00 Panel 3: Land Expansions
Min-Su Park (Seoul National University and Harvard-Yenching Institute) – The Manchu Policy of Land Enclosure in Early Qing Beijing: Virtues and Vices
Anne-Sophie Pratte (Harvard University) – Transforming the Borderlands: Xi-chang’s 1882 Mission to the Khalkha-Russia Frontier
Upcoming Events
Visiting Scholar Talks
Echoes Of Thomas Aquinas In Alessandro Valignano’s Japanese Catechism: Reason, Faith, and The Art Of ContextualizationMonday, January 13, 2025
Visiting Scholar Talks
From Jesuit Baroque and French Gothic to Japanese Temple Style: The History of Catholic Church Architecture in Japan, 19th to Early 20th CenturyTuesday, February 18, 2025