Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Virtual book talk: Fei-Hsien Wang on copyright in China

 [We share the following announcement. Fei-Hsien Wang's book, Pirates and Publishers won the Stein Award in 2020.]

Asian Legal History Seminar Series 

Book Talk: Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019)

Date & time: Friday, 16 April 2021, 10am-11.30am Hong Kong time

Speaker: Dr. Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana University Bloomington)

Respondent: Dr. Michael Ng (University of Hong Kong)

Fei-Hsien Wang is an associate professor in the Department of History in Indiana University Bloomington. She is a historian of modern China with a particular interest in how information, ideas, and practices were produced, transmitted and consumed across different societies in East Asia. 

Michael Ng is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law in the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the legal history of China and Hong Kong in the 19th and 20th centuries. 

Please register here.

--Mitra Sharafi