Johanna Ransmeier, University of Chicago
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois
jsransmeier@uchicago.edu
Office:
(773) 834-2014
Bio/Research
My research explores the relationship between family life and the law in modern China, often through the lens of crime. I am presently completing a book on the trafficking of people in North China during the late Qing and Republican period. Transactions in people remained an intimate and essentia...
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Bio/Research
My research explores the relationship between family life and the law in modern China, often through the lens of crime. I am presently completing a book on the trafficking of people in North China during the late Qing and Republican period. Transactions in people remained an intimate and essential part of life for many throughout this time of transition. In this book I demonstrate that despite traffickers most frequent protestations poverty was not solely to blame. Traditional Chinese family structure itself enabled a highly flexible market for everyone from slaves, servants, wives, concubines, wet nurses, prostitutes, private drivers, funeral musicians, and apprentice street performers.
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