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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/changing-status-house-tenants-
 modern-chinese-law/
SUMMARY:The Changing Status of House Tenants in Modern Chinese Law
DESCRIPTION:\n	Sun Huei-Min (Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Moder
 n History\, Academia Sinica\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/Discussant: Wi
 lliam Alford (Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School)\n\n	
 Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and East Asian Leg
 al Studies\, Harvard University\n\n	Please note Vanserg Hall location\n\n\
 n	Although rental housing itself is not at all modern in China\, the laws 
 that regulate rental housing are. This talk will introduce the development
  of rental housing laws in the first half of the 20th century in China\, w
 ith a focus on the changing status of tenants. Until the end of the 19th c
 entury\, there were hardly any rules on house leasing under Chinese statut
 ory laws. However\, since the 17th century\, the style and content of hous
 e leasing contracts was distinct from those of land leasing contracts\, an
 d the provisions in the contracts became more and more circumspect while t
 he subordinate status of house tenants in the contracts never changed. In 
 the beginning of the 20th century\, the judicial government of the Interna
 tional Settlement in Shanghai put the first regulations on rental housing 
 into effect\, in order to ensure that tenants would meet their contractual
  obligations and to enhance the administration of floating residents. On t
 he other hand\, the ever-enlarging population of middle-class house tenant
 s in Shanghai became vanguards in the push for tenant rights. Inspired by 
 the logic of moral economy\, foreign (particularly British-American) exper
 ience in coping with urban housing problems\, and socialists’ objections
  against exploitation\, the welfare of house tenants came to be a key issu
 e in the legislation of rental housing laws.
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