Title: The Roleof Land Contractsin Ming-Qing Era
Lecturer: Sui-wai Cheung (Professor and the Director of Ming-Qing Research Center of Humanities Research Institute in Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chairperson: FENG Xiaocai (Professor of History, East China Normal University)
Date: 9pm, June 24th, 2019 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
This lecture attempts to show the difference between the Red Contract and the White Contract, and also the destination of the word using in contracts. The discussion will include three questions: 1. The reason of making contracts; 2. How did the provincial financial officers and county magistratesmakeprofitsfromexaminingcontracts; 3. Did the land data in contracts play a role in making land tax?
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Sui-wai Cheung isthe director of Ming-Qing Research Center of Humanities Research Institute in Chinese University of Hong Kong and the vice-director of History department in Chinese University of Hong Kong. He got his Ph.D. degree in Oxford University. Prof. Cheung has published his monograph The Price of Rice: Market Integration in Eighteenth-Century China and peer reviewed papers in late imperial Chinese history.
