Contract and property in early modern China / edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Zelin, Madeleine.; Ocko, Jonathan K., 1946-; Gardella, Robert.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vi, 398 p.
• Other title: A critique of rights of property in pre-war China/; Writs of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan/; Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China/; Property, taxes, and state protection of rights/; The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts/; The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China/; Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai/; Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard/; Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China/; Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937/; Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns/
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-398) and index.
• ISBN: 0804746397 (alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.