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【日　時】 2025年10月31日（金）17:00~18:30
【場　所】慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス　大学院校舎8階共同研究室
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【演　題】 "The Law of Madness and the Madness of the Law": Legal Reforms and the Making of Newspaper Laws in Early Twentieth-Century China（「狂気の法と法の狂気」 ――20世紀初頭中国における法改革と新聞法の形成）

【講　師】范鑫（上海科技大学教授）
https://ih.shanghaitech.edu.cn/2025/0731/c847a1113633/page.htm

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/world-history-and-national-identity-in-china/ECB0340875B40138AE27A9B4B1FD2601#fndtn-information

【討論者】　川島真（東京大学）、Sebastian Veg（東京大学）
【司　会】　トーマス・バレット（慶應義塾大学）

【主　催】　慶應義塾大学東アジア研究所主催（主幹：現代中国研究センター）
【使用言語】英語（質疑応答は中国語・日本語も可）

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Speaker: Professor Xin Fan (ShanghaiTech University)
Title: "The Law of Madness and the Madness of the Law": Legal Reforms and the Making of Newspaper Laws in Early Twentieth-Century China
Discussants: Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo), Sebastian Veg (University of Tokyo)

Chair: Thomas P. Barrett (Keio University)

Language: English (Chinese and Japanese possible in Q&A)

Organiser: Keio Institute of East Asian Studies, Keio Center for Contemporary Chinese Studies
Date and Time: October 31, 2025（Friday）　17:00 〜 18:30
Place: Collaborative Research Room 1, 8th Floor, Graduate School Building, Keio University Mita Campus

Registration: Please complete the form below by Wednesday October 29, 2025.

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【報告要旨／Abstract】
"The Law of Madness and the Madness of the Law":
Legal Reforms and the Making of Newspaper Laws in Early Twentieth-Century China
Dr Xin Fan

The "invention" of madness marked a pivotal moment in the making of modern medical science in early twentieth-century China. Yet the role of mental illness as a legal category in shaping censorship laws has received little scholarly attention. This paper examines a brief but significant moment when two successive editions of Chinese newspaper laws--one promulgated in the late Qing dynasty and the other in the early Republic--explicitly barred individuals diagnosed with psychological disorders from engaging in publishing activities. While existing scholarship has largely emphasized Japanese influence on these laws, I argue that the inclusion, and subsequent removal, of this provision reveals a critical juncture at which modernity was redefined as a bodily experience of insanity within the framework of China's legal reforms in the early twentieth century.

【プロフィール／Speaker Biography】
Fan Xin 范鑫 is Professor of History and Vice Dean of the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University. He previously taught at Freie Universität Berlin, the State University of New York at Fredonia, and the University of Cambridge. His research spans modern Chinese history, historiography, and global intellectual history. He is the author of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Global History in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and co-editor of Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Brill, 2018)