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About - Maura DYKSTRA
Maura Dykstra is an assistant professor in the Yale University History Department. The research for the present paper was conducted in the summer of 2011 in the Sichuan Provincial Archives while serving as a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellow. When she wrote the first draft in 2014, she was in the final year of writing her PhD dissertation, submitted at UCLA as “Complicated Matters: Commercial Dispute Resolution in Qing Chongqing from 1750 to 1911.” She revised the paper during her An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (2014–15). She published Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022).
