About

Pär Cassel is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, earned in 2006. His research focuses on late imperial and modern China, the treaty ports of East Asia, Manjuristics and Inner Asian history, as well as the legal, political, and institutional history of China and the foreign relations of China and Japan. Cassel's work explores the legal encounter between East Asia and the Western world in the nineteenth century, particularly through the analysis of commercial treaties and extraterritoriality, which shaped the relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson Korea, and Western countries such as Britain, France, and the United States. He is affiliated with several centers, including the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Cassel is also a co-editor of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies and teaches courses related to modern China and law and society in late imperial and modern China.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Social Science
• History
• Computer Science
• Archaeology
• Law
• Media studies
• Aesthetics
• Art
• Economic history
• Geography

Selected publications

• Preface

  Columbia University Press eBooks · 2023

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  DOI

• Solitary Swedish Sinologists: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of Swedish China Studies

  Journal of Chinese History · 2023

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Social Science
  • Sociology
  • Political Science

  Abstract This article gives an analytic survey of Sinology in the Swedish-speaking world from the mid-seventeenth century through the present and it draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources from the same time period. It argues that while Swedish Sinology has been characterized by strong individuals who have made consequential contributions to the study of China, Swedish Sinology now faces important challenges of an institutional and linguistic nature.

  DOI

• Emily Whewell, Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China's Western Frontiers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. 214. £80.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781526140029).

  Law and History Review · 2022

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • History

  Emily Whewell, Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China's Western Frontiers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. 214. £80.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781526140029). - Volume 40 Issue 1

  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Melissa Brown

  DeSales University

  1 shared

• Joshua Van Lieu

  Keimyung University

  1 shared

• Jung Donghun

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1 shared

• Sunkyu Kim

  Incyte (United States)

  1 shared

• Tom Mul- Laney

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1 shared

• Alanna Hickey

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1 shared

• Connie Chin

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1 shared

• Stephanie Balkwill

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., History

  Harvard University

  2006

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