Thinking with Cases : : Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History / / ed. by Charlotte Furth, Ping-chen Hsiung, Judith T. Zeitlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Chu, Hung-lam,; Hsiung, ping-chen,; Karasawa, yasuhiko,; furth, charlotte,; sharf, robert h.,; tienne will, pierre,; yanhong, Wu,; yonglin, Jiang,; zeitlin, judith t.,
• HerausgeberIn: Furth, Charlotte,; Hsiung, Ping-chen,; Zeitlin, Judith T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 3 illus.

Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the priority of individual situations over the generalizations derived from them. In this volume, an international group of senior scholars comes together to consider the use of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Note on Citations and Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Introduction :Thinking with Cases
• PART 1: THE CASE IN LAW
• 1 .Satisfying Both Sentiment and Law: Fairness-Centered Judicial Reasoning as Seen in Late Ming Casebooks
• 2. Developing Forensic Knowledge through Cases in the Qing Dynasty
• 3 ,From Oral Testimony to Written Records in Qing Legal Cases
• PART 2: MEDICAL CASE HISTORIES
• 4. Producing Medical Knowledge through Cases: History, Evidence, and Action
• 5. Facts in the Tale: Case Records and Pediatric Medicine in Late Imperial China
• 6. The Literary Fashioning of Medical Authority: A Study of Sun Yikui's Case Histories
• PART 3 :THE CASE IN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
• 7. How to Think with Chan Gong'an
• 8. Confucian ''Case Learning'': The Genre of Xue'an Writings
• Appendix: Printed Sources Discussed in This Volume
• Character Glossary
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index