Short Biography

Zhengyang Jiang is an Assistant Professor and graduate supervisor at Beijing Institute of Technology law school. She received her bachelor’s degree from Northwest University of Political Science and Law, and got master’s degree and Ph.D. degree at Renmin University of China. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and served as a postdoctoral fellow supported by Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program at Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences. Research Interests include Chinese Legal History, Sociology of Law, and Frontier Governance in Qing Dynasty.

Project

Border-Making in Northeast Asia: from a Perspective of Judicial Cases in Qing

The northeastern border and ethnic issues in the Qing Dynasty have received widespread attention from scholars both domestically and internationally. The northeastern region, situated adjacent to Tsarist Russia, Korea and Japan, witnessed the mutual influences between different cultures and nations. The Qing government established the outer boundaries of the northeast through a modern treaty system, and subsequently implemented homogenized rule within its inner areas, replacing the previous pluralistic governance model, aiming at effective penetration of central authority into the frontier regions. The historical practice provides us with a transcultural perspective to understand the making of world order in northeast Asia.