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

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16K16978
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Fundamental law
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	Chen Yun・Ru 早稲田大学, 高等研究所, 招聘研究員 (10756365)
Project Period (FY)	2016-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000) Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords	law / history / China / Taiwan / Asia / family / nationalism / traditions / Family Law / Nation / History
Outline of Annual Research Achievements	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.