PODCAST: Tristan G. BROWN, Laws of the Land. Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023) [New Books Network, 11 DEC 2023]

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Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and I am speaking today to Prof. Tristan Brown about his book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton UP, 2023). Brown’s book considers fengshui, that is, the knowledge of orienting structures, such as graves and houses, in accordance with well-established cosmological principles, as an administrative technology and language of power that was intrinsic to governance through the Qing legal code.

Listen to the podcast here.