Yonglin Jiang

Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Thomas Hall 115
610-526-6557
yjiang@brynmawr.edu

Yonglin Jiang offers courses on Chinese and East Asian history. Recent courses include surveys of Chinese civilization, Chinese revolution, and human rights in China, as well as seminar on legal culture in imperial China. In 2009-2010, he will teach women in Chinese history, history of Chinese religions, history of Confucianism, and understanding contemporary China. Jiang’s research focuses on legal culture in late imperial China. He is the author of The Great Ming Code (2005), Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven: Cosmology and Legal Culture in Early Ming China (forthcoming), and a number of articles on legal philosophy, the body, ethnicity, religion, and law enforcement. Currently, Jiang is working on a book project tentatively entitled “Negotiating Justice: Local Adjudication and Social Change in Late Imperial China.” Jiang’s scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is president of the Society for Ming Studies.