Institute for Advanced Historical and Social Research

Purpose

Advanced research to us means to place all theories into their historical contexts, to adopt a multi-theoretical perspective, and to use theory more for questions than for answers. From the point of view of Western theoretical expectations, China’s is a past and present of great and continuing paradoxes. Properly studied and conceptualized, Chinese experience / practice can form the basis for unique contributions to human knowledge.

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Scandal in the Garden: The Story of the Stone as a ‘Licentious Novel

2025-11-25
SOMMER Matthew

Was China Part of a Global Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality?

2025-11-25
SOMMER Matthew

Making Sex Work: Polyandry as a Survival Strategy in Qing Dynasty China

2025-11-25
SOMMER Matthew

Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law

2025-11-25
SOMMER Matthew

The Penetrated Male in Late Imperial China: Judicial Constructions and Social Stigma

2025-11-25
SOMMER Matthew

Working Papers

Rural China 22.2｜Why Is Involution (Not Evolution or Revolution) the Central Concept in My Understanding of Chinese History?

2025-09-15
Philip C. C. Huang

Rural China 22.1｜The Journals Zhongguo xiangcun yanjiu and Rural China: Retrospect and Prospect

2025-04-13
Philip C. C. Huang

Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform

2023-12-21
Genliang Jia

Resource Endowment, Rural Governance, and the “New Agriculture” in China

2021-05-18
Yaoyao Cheng, Peikun Han

Rethinking the Formalism-Substantivism Debate in Social Science: A Perspective from Recent Developments in Economic Methodology

2021-01-15
Gao Yuan

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Adjunct Professors

.Chen Chuanbo .Chen Ping .Cui Zhiyuan .DEMARE Brian .Dong Leiming .Fan Yu .Gan Yang .He Xuefeng .Hu Angang .Huang Ping .Huang Xingtao .Jiang Shigong .Kang Xiaoguang .Li Huaiyin .Li Lulu .Lu Di .Lu Hanchao .Lv Jie .Ma Xiaohong .Meng Jie .Ouyang Jing .SOMMER Matthew .Tong Zhihui .Wang Hui .Xia Mingfang .Xu Zhangrun .Yang Nianqun .Zhang Jing .Zhang Xiaojun .Zhao Xiaoli .Zhao Xudong .Zhao Yuezhi .Zhou Li .Zhou Li-An .Zhou Xueguang .Zhu Jingwen

Visiting Faculty

.He Xuefeng .Peng Yusheng .Wang Mingming .Wang Shaoguang

Affiliated Research Faculty

.Chen Baifeng .Gao Yuan .Gui Hua .Huang Jialiang .Jiao Changquan .Jing Fenghua .Jiang Zhengyang .Lai Junnan .Qi Hao .Wang Qingming .You Chenjun .Yu Shengfeng .Zhai Runzhuo .Zhao Liuyang .Zhao Shan

Core Courses

Historical Study of Society, Economy and Law

Philip C. C. Huang

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