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Christopher Isett

612/624-1505
Department of History 920 HellerH 271 19th Ave S

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • late imperial and modern Chinese economic, social, legal and political history
  • economic history
  • comparative history and social theory
  • agrarian history and agricultural change

Publications

  • State, Peasant, and Merchant on the Manchurian Frontier, 1644-1862. Isett, Christopher, Stanford University Press, Author, 2007.
  • England's Divergence from China's Yangzi delta: Property Relations, Microeconomics, and Patterns of Economic Development. Isett, Christopher, Robert Brenner, Author, 2002.
  • Village regulation of property claims and the social transformation of Qing Manchuria. Isett, Christopher, 2004.
  • Sugar Manufacture and the Agrarian Economy of Nineteenth-Century Taiwan. Isett, Christopher, 1995.

Research Activities

  • Nutrition and well being in eighteenth-century China: Anthropometric study: ongoing
  • Kinship, Women’s Labor, and China’s Economic Performance in the 17th-21st Centuries: Melissa Brown (PI), Chris Isett (Co-PI); NSF funded research project
  • Imperialism, Capitalism, and the Logic of Peasant Production in Colonial Manchuria: ongoing

Awards

  • London School of Economics, Department of Economic History, Erasmus Mundus Fellowship of the EU, March 18 - March 29, 2013
  • Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, August 15, 2011 - June 15, 2012
  • Fulbright Scholar Award, August 15, 2011 - June 15, 2012
  • Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Grant for Professors, 09.01.10 - 08.31.13

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3465W - China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
  • Hist 5934 - Comparative History and Social Theory
  • Hist 5940 - Topics in Modern Chinese History
  • Hist 3462 - East Asia since 1500
  • History 3419: World Economic History since 1500
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