This project draws on documents from more than a dozen archives in five countries to show how transnational legal innovations shaped the rural ecologies of power in modern Manchuria. To develop this unique set of legal practices, peasants, migrants, and jurists across the region wove European positivist conceptions of property and obligations together with Chinese and Korean legal strategies adapted for the frontier in centuries past.
In so doing, they effectively reinvented the idea of sovereignty, making it a contingent package of private rights. It also shows how the legal agency of the borderlanders pushed the states to recalibrate their visions for the frontier. The lasting influence of this creativity remained palpable in the early years of the PRC.
By building a sustained community of interdisciplinary conversation and by demonstrating what creative trespassing can accomplish, we hope to set a standard of integrative work that will act as a magnet. The Program began formally with academic year , thanks to support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Yale University. The many hands from many disciplines that have shaped this Program share three premises.
Graduate students who are working on their Ph. Fellows are expected to be in residence in New Haven to take an active part in the intellectual exchange with other members of the Program.
The application for the post-doctoral search is open, and applications are due by midnight on January 3, Apply here.
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