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Elif Akcetin

    Elif Akcetin

    Conference
    CfP Case and Code in the Chinese Legal Traditionmore
    by Elif Akcetin
    Chinese Legal Tradition Working Group Conference
    https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/4163600/event-24-06-24-chinese-legal-tradition-working-group-conference.html
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    Books
    Tentative title: Law, Corruption, and Autocracy in Eighteenth-Century China (in preparation and under advance contract with the University of Washington Press)more
    by Elif Akcetin
    Drawing on a corruption trial and investigation, the book (five chapters: I. Poverty, II. Truth, III. Redemption, IV. Wealth, and V. Justice) sheds light on the technicalities of legal reasoning and practices: gathering and assessing... more
    Drawing on a corruption trial and investigation, the book (five chapters: I. Poverty, II. Truth, III. Redemption, IV. Wealth, and V. Justice) sheds light on the technicalities of legal reasoning and practices: gathering and assessing evidence, measuring wealth and poverty, classifying and appropriating accused officials’ possessions, judging human character and desire, comparing, categorizing and ranking crime, structuring the legal time of punishments, and constructing a narrative of imperial justice and wisdom. The emperor orchestrated the process, asserting possession over truth, over human nature and emotions, and over the material realm. These practices of governance, I contend, formed precedents of order-making for the emerging modern state in China (i.e. the state attempting to monopolize knowledge and the production of truth) and reveal important features of Qing law in practice which have been hitherto overlooked.
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    Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, co-edited with Suraiya Faroqhi (Leiden: Brill, 2017).more
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    Papers
    Corruption, Security, and Law in Early Qing China (submitted and under review)more
    by Elif Akcetin
    “Decluttering: On the Classification of Objects at the Imperial Household Department” in Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire, edited by Martina Siebert, Kai Jun Chen and Dorothy Ko (Amsterdam University Press, 2021)more
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    “Consumption as Knowledge: Pawnbrokers in Qing China Appraise Furs,” in Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 357-83.more
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    “Civil Service Examinations,” in Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History, edited by Naomi Standen (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012), 117-26.more
    by Elif Akcetin
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    Co-authored chapters
    “Introduction,” with Suraiya Faroqhi, in Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 1-37.more
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    “Setting the Stage,” with Suraiya Faroqhi, in Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 38-58.more
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    “Conclusion,” with Suraiya Faroqhi, in Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 474-91.more
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    Book Reviews
    Review of Mårten Söderblom Saarela’s "The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe," Journal of Early Modern History, 11 October 2021.more
    by Elif Akcetin
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    Review of Jonathan Schlesinger’s A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule, in The Journal of Chinese History 2.1 (2018), 269-75.more
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    Review of Jiang Yonglin’s The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code, in International History Review 36.2 (2014), 365-67.more
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    “Historicizing Chinese Science and Technology,” review of Dagmar Schäfer’s The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China, in Science as Culture 23.1 (2014), 119-23.more
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    Review of Erica Fox Brindley’s Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics, in International History Review 34.1 (2012), 179-80.more
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    Review of Kenneth M. Swope’s A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598, in International History Review 32.4 (2010), 734-36.more
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    Courses
    History 294: Wealth and Poverty in China and the Ottoman Empiremore
    by Elif Akcetin
    Course syllabus: Wealth and Poverty in China and the Ottoman Empire, Haverford College, spring 2022
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    COOL CLASSES: Wealth and Poverty in China and the Ottoman Empiremore
    by Elif Akcetin
    https://haver.blog/2022/02/17/cool-classes-wealth-and-poverty-in-china-and-the-ottoman-empire/
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    HIST 293 Manchusmore
    by Elif Akcetin
    Course syllabus: Manchus in China, Haverford College, spring 2022
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    HIST 347 The Art of Governancemore
    by Elif Akcetin
    Course syllabus: The Art of Governance in High Qing China, Haverford College, fall 2021
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    HIST 292 Material Culturemore
    by Elif Akcetin
    Course syllabus: Material Culture in China, Haverford College, fall 2021
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