Tristan Brown’s Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China has been awarded the 2024 Fairbank Prize in East Asian History by the American Historical Association. Termed “A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty,” Laws of the Land shows how the nature of knowledge and knowledge of nature shaped Chinese society and the institutions that governed it during the last dynasty of the imperial era.
