Claude Chevaleyre (2020), « Serving and Working for Others: Negotiating Legal Status and Social Relations of Household Laborers in Late Imperial China », in Journal of Global Slavery, Volume 5, Issue 2, juillet 2020. P.170-203.

Over the past decades, “wage labor” has been a lingering issue in studies on the development patterns of late imperial China. The legal reconfiguration of the category of “hired laborers” (gugong 僱工) between 1588 and 1788, in particular, has been foregrounded as a salient manifestation of the “incipient capitalism” going hand in hand with the emergence of a “free” labor market and with the decline of bound labor. [Lire la suite]

Élise Domenach, Maîtresse de conférences en études cinématographiques, École normale supérieure de Lyon, Membre de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale, « Un « paradigme Fukushima » au cinéma », Article du mois, Gis Asie, juin 2020. URL : http://www.gis-reseau-asie.org/fr/un-paradigme-fukushima-au-cinema

Neuf années se sont écoulées depuis que le tremblement de terre et le tsunami du 11 mars 2011 ont entraîné la catastrophe nucléaire la plus grave depuis Tchernobyl dans la centrale de Fukushima Daiichi (Tohoku, Japon). Les cinéastes japonais s’en sont bien vite saisis, et le cinéma qui est né de cette catastrophe a durablement transformé le medium lui-même, ainsi que le monde qu’il projetait. Nous prendrons pour exemple de ces transformations Tenzo de Tomita Katsuya (Semaine de la critique, Cannes 2019), l’un des films les plus marquants de ces dernières années sur le sujet.

Jérôme Bourgon (2020), Historians at the Court: How Cultural Expertise in Qing Law Contributes to the Invention of Hong Kong “Chinese Customary Law”, Law and History Review, Cambridge University Press, Volume 38, Numéro 1, Février 2020. pp. 85-98

This paper relies on the narrative of a renowned historian of Qing law from China mainland who has been called by Hong Kong High Court in 2007, to witness as an expert in “Chinese customary law.” At the opening of the trial, he recognized one well-known and estimated colleague from Taiwan in the expert engaged by the other party. During one week, these two legal historians called up a vast array of knowledge in Chinese history, culture, and law, to ensure the triumph of their party. [Lire la suite]

Claude Chevaleyre & Jérôme Bourgon (2020), notices dans Pierre-Étienne Will, Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China: a Descriptive and Critical Bibliography (2 vols). Brill, 2020

The 1,165 entries of Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China by Pierre-Étienne Will and collaborators provide a descriptive list of extant manuscript and printed works—mainly from the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties—created with the aim to instruct officials and other administrators of imperial China about the technical and ethical aspects of government, and to provide tools and guides to help with the relevant procedures. Both generalist and specialized texts are considered. Among the latter, such disciplines as the administration of justice, famine relief, and the military receive particular attention. Each entry includes the publishing history of the work considered (including modern editions), an analysis of contents, and a biographical sketch of the author.