Teemu Ruskola

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Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Professor of Law

 

Teemu Ruskola is a scholar of Chinese law with further research interests in China and social theory, comparative and international legal history and theory, comparative colonialism, gender and sexuality, and law and race.  He is the author of Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press 2013), among other works.  He is currently at work on two book projects:  “The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: A Brief History of Inequality in the PRC,” which analyzes the ongoing reorganization of rural and urban capital in China; and “China, For Example: China and the Making of Modern International Law,” which which investigates the history of the introduction of Western international law into China as part of the globalization of Euro-American conceptions of political space and time.