Law and Colonial Policies: Mongolian Penal Law and Sino-Manchu Control

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center at USC presents Prof. Francoise Aubin.

Research Director Emerita of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Centre de Recherche sur l’Extreme Orient de Paris, Sorbonne (CREOPS)
4:00 p.m.

This event is cosponsored by the USC US-China Institute and the Department of History at USC.

For more information, please contact the East Asian Studies Center at USC, easc@usc.edu, or Prof. Bettine Birge, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC, birge@usc.edu.

One of the doyennes of Inner Asian studies, Françoise Aubin is Research Director Emerita at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and at the Centre for International Studies and  Research of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.  A specialist on China, Mongolia, and Islam with a particular interest in cultural and institutional history in the Far East and Central Asia, in a career lasting over five decades Aubin has earned worldwide recognition for her scholarship in a range of subjects, including especially Mongolian and Chinese law, Yuan history, Mongolian studies, and Central Asian and Chinese Islam.  Renowned both as a scholar and a teacher, Prof. Aubin has published over 1,000 articles and reviews and mentored scores of younger researchers.