Maura D. Dykstra
Assistant Professor of History
| Mail Code: | MC 101-40 |
| Office: | 201A Dabney |
| Phone: | 626-395-6087 |
| Email: | maura@caltech.edu |
Research Interests
Legal History; Economic History; Late Imperial Institutional History; History of the Transition from the Late Imperial to the Modern Chinese State
RESEARCH AREA
Selected Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
"Beyond the Shadow of the Law: Firm Insolvency, State-building, and the New Policy Bankruptcy Reform in Late Qing Chongqing," Frontiers of History in China Vol. 8, no. 3 (September, 2013): 406-432.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
"Liability, Fraud, Litigation, and Everyday Injustice in the Hu Wan Chang Remittance House Bankruptcy," in Pierre-Etienne Will, ed. La Justice au Quotidien, forthcoming.
"Did China Have a Fin-de-Siècle?" with Jeffrey Wasserstrom in Michael Saler, ed. The Fin-de-Siècle World, London: Routledge, 2014.
"帝国、知縣、商人以及連繫彼此的紐帶：清代重庆的商业诉讼" [Empire, Magistrates, Merchants, and the Ties that Bind: Commercial Litigation in Late Imperial Chongqing] in Wang Xi, ed.中国和世界历史中的重庆——重庆史研究国际会议 (2012) 论文选编 [Chongqing in Historical China and the World: Selected Papers from the 2012 International Conference on Chongqing History], Chongqing: Chongqing daxue chubanshe, 2013, pp. 166-180.