Degree:

Mark Allee
	Title:	Associate Professor
	Office:	Crown Center 543
	Phone:	773.508.2224
	E-mail:	mallee@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degree:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987

Specialization:

Early Modern Chinese History

Research Interests:

Early Modern (16th-19th centuries), social history, local history, law and society.

• Legal philosophy and local legal culture in 19th century China
• Status of contracts in local court cases in early modern China
• Civil-military relations at the county level in early modern China

Courses for Summer II 2010:

HIST 346: China Since 1949: The People's Republic

Courses for Fall Semester 2010:

HIST 108: East Asia Since 1500
HIST 345: Reform and Revolution in China, 1800-1949

Publications:

"The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Courts." In Contract and Property in Early Modern China, edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China: Northern Taiwan in the Nineteenth Century. Stanford University Press, 1994.

"Code, Culture, Custom: Foundations of Civil Case Verdicts in a Nineteenth Century Court." In Civil Law in Chinese History, Edited by Philip C.C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhard. Stanford University Press, 1994.

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