Essays on China's Legal Tradition / / ed. by R. Randle Edwards, Fu-mei Chang Chen, Jerome Alan Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bodde, Derk,; Brockman, Rosser H.,; Chen, Fu-mei Chang,; Cohen, Jerome Alan,; Creel, Herrlee Glessner,; Edwards, R. Randle,; Henderson, Dan Fenno,; Meijer, Marinus J.,; Miyazaki, Ichisada,; Shaw, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Chen, Fu-mei Chang,; Cohen, Jerome Alan,; Edwards, R. Randle,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in East Asian Law ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

In this volume of essays a group of scholars from Europe, Japan, the Republic of China, and the United States examines China's legal tradition to determine its importance for the study of both pre-modern China and of contemporary affairs.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• I. Introduction
• II. Legal Institutions and Procedures During the Chou Dynasty
• III. The Administration of Justice During the Sung Dynasty
• IV. Commercial Contract Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Taiwan
• V. Age, Youth, and Infirmity in the Law of Ch’ing China
• VI. The Influence of Shen Chih-ch’i’s Chi-chu Commentary upon Ch’ing Judicial Decisions
• VII. Ch’ing Legal Jurisdiction over Foreigners
• VIII. Chinese Influences on Eighteenth-Century Tokugawa Codes
• IX. Traditional Korean Law and Its Relation to China
• X. Slavery at the End of the Ch’ing Dynasty
• Works in Western Languages
• Works in East Asian Languages
• Glossary
• Index
• List of Studies in East Asian Law