Madeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at

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. At Columbia, Zelin is affiliated with the

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, the Department of History, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and the

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Biography

Zelin received her B.A. from

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in 1970 and her Ph.D. from the

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in 1979. In 1979, she joined the faculty of

, where she teaches Chinese legal and economic history and the history of Chinese social movements. In the West, Zelin pioneered the study of Chinese legal and economic history.WEAI
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/ref> In 2005, Zelin published ''The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China'' (

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), a study of the indigenous roots of Chinese economic culture and business practice. The book was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memorial Prize of the Social Science History Association, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. She has also authored ''The Magistrate’s Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China'' (University of California Press, 1984), co-edited ''Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China'', (Stanford University Press, 2004), co-edited ''Nation and Beyond: Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times'' (University of California Press, 2006), and translated Mao Dun's novel ''Rainbow'' (University of California Press, 1992).

Selected publications

*Zelin, Madeleine (1984). ''The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China''. Berkeley:

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. *Zelin, Madeleine, Jonathan Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. (2004). ''Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China'' Stanford:

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. *Zelin, Madeleine (2005). ''The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China''. New York:

. *Zelin, Madeleine, and Billy K.L. So, eds. (2013). ''New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders''. Leiden:

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. As translator: *Mao Dun (1992). ''Rainbow'', trans. Madeleine Zelin. Berkeley:

Affiliations

Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia UniversityDepartment of History, Columbia University
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