Pär Cassel

Recent Publications:

"Koga Toan’s Suppositions on Naval Defense and the Opium War Debate in Japan." In Joan Judge, Joachim Kurtz, et al (eds), The Sinosphere and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Joshua Fogel (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), 67-89.

"Solitary Swedish Sinologists: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of Swedish China Studies." Journal of Chinese History (2023), 1–27.

"The Mixed Court Of The Shanghai International Settlement." In Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (2020).

"Treaty Ports and the Foreign Community in Modern China." In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (2018).

"Extraterritoriality in China: What we know and what we don't know." In Robert Bickers and Isabella Jackson (eds), Treaty Ports in Modern China, 23-42. (Routledge, 2016)

Affiliations:

• LSA International Institute
• Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
• Center for Japanese Studies
• Nam Center for Korean Studies
• Co-editor of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies

Fields of Study:

• Late imperial and modern China;
• The treaty ports of East Asia;
• Manjuristics and Inner Asian history;
• The legal, political and institutional history of China;
• The foreign relations of China and Japan.