Chinese Family Law in Transition: The (Re-)constructions of Traditions and the Making of Nations

当前比较法学的发展趋势是研究民族主义、殖民主义和家庭法之间的关系，而东亚家庭法的经验在英语学术界却鲜为人知。该项目主要基于台湾（包括日本殖民时期）和晚清/民国时期的长期和新发现的档案材料，阐述了中国家庭传统和习俗如何被选择，重塑和重新融入人们的日常生活，自世纪末至第二次世界大战期间，无论是殖民地还是民族主义政权。第一年致力于台湾的档案研究和实地考察。本文对中国传统法制和现代法制中的档案及相关文献进行了分析。

While the current trend of comparative law turns to the relationships among nationalism, colonialism and family law, the experience of East Asian family laws remains little known in English-speaking academia. Mainly based on both long-standing and newly-discovered archival materials in Taiwan (including Japanese colonial period) and late-Qing/Republican China, the project elucidates how Chinese family traditions and customs were selected, reshaped and re-incorporated into people’s daily lives since the late 19th century to World War II, under either the colonial or nationalist regimes. The first year is devoted to archival study and fieldwork in Taiwan. The reacher analyzes archives and relevant literatures situated in traditional Chinese law regime as well as in the modern regime.