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    Matthew Sommer

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  • Matthew Sommer
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  • Department of History
  • https://history.stanford.edu/people/faculty
  • Stanford University
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  • 450 Serra Mall
    Stanford, California 94305
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  • My research focuses on sexuality, gender relations, chosen kinship, and law during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) and the main sources for my work are legal cases from central and local archives in China. The main local archives I have used happen to be located in Sichuan, which is my favorite part of China (the photo shows me eating Yibin-style “flaming noodles” at a restaurant in Chengdu). I also like to use popular fiction and other non-legal sources for historical research. 


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