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Associate Professor of History

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Chinese Studies
  • Center for Japanese Studies
  • Department of History

• Fields of Study

  • Late Imperial and Modern China
  • Legal, Political, and Institutional History of China
  • Sino-Japanese Relations
  • Treaty Ports of East Asia

• About

  Pär Cassel is strongly committed to multi-lingual and multi-archival research and is especially interested in historical problems where international relations, jurisprudence, institutional history and linguistics intersect.

• Education

  • PhD, Harvard University, 2006

• Awards

  • Yong K. Kim '95 Memorial Prize, 2006

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2011) Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan