Tristan G. Brown is an Associate Professor of History at MIT and the author of Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 John K. Fairbank Award from the American Historical Association. His research examines law, religion, environmental governance, and state–society relations in late imperial China.
A carved stone discovered in Qinghai Province in 2020 drew wide attention in June 2025 when a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences proposed that it was an inscription from the reign of China’s first emperor, Qin Shihuang (r. 221–210 BCE), a claim that seemed to extend Qin influence to the Tibetan Plateau. […]
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