Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, will give a keynote speech at North Carolina State University’s History Weekend on March 19, 2016. The 2016 History Weekend theme is “Rethinking the Roots of Modern China.” Professor Zelin’s talk is titled “Freedom and the Economy of Late Imperial China.”
Professor Zelin’s recent research has focused on legal history, the role of law in the Chinese economy and the interface between law, culture, and the market in early modern China. She is the author ofThe Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2005), which was awarded the Fairbank Prize (American Historical Association), Alan Sharlin Memorial Award (Social Science History Association) and the Humanities Prize of the International Conference on Asian Studies (ICAS).
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