Justice in print : : discovering prefectural judges and their judicial consistency in late-Ming casebooks / / by Ka-Chai Tam.

• Superior document: The Social Sciences of Practice ; Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Tam, Ka-chai, 1975-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Social sciences of practice.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Justice in Print: Discovering Prefectural Judges and Their Judicial Consistency in Late-Ming Casebooks , Ka-chai Tam argues that the prefectural judge in the judiciary of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) became crucial to upholding justice in Chinese society. In light of two late Ming casebooks, name...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgement
• List of Tables
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The Principal Question
• 1.2 Some Basic Facts about the Ming Legal System and Legislation
• 1.3 The Main Sources of the Current Study: Judicial Casebooks from the Ming
• 1.4 The Methodology and Plan of This Study
• 2 Prefectural Judges in the Late-Ming Judicial System
• 2.1 Development of the tuiguan Post in Late Imperial China
• 2.2 The Role of Prefectural Judges in the Late-Ming Provincial Bureaucracy
• 2.3 Prefectural Judges' Responsibility to Oversee the Courts of the County Magistrates
• 2.4 The Role of Cooperation between Prefectural Judges and Other Provincial Officials in Maintaining the Quality of Judicial Rulings in the Provincial Judiciary
• 2.5 Professionalism and Insistence on Independence of Prefectural Judges in Performing Their Judicial Duties
• 3 Favorable Institutional Circumstances for the Development of Judicial Professionalism
• 3.1 The Impact of the tui zhi xingqu Promotion Route and the Importance of Frontline Officials' Good Judicial Performance
• 3.2 The Increasing Demand for Junior Officials' Uniform Judicial Performance
• 3.3 The Increased Importance of Judicial Rulings in the Civil Service Examination since the Late-Wanli Era
• 4 The Emergence of the Late-Ming Casebooks and Their Importance to Our Understanding of the Ming Judiciary
• 4.1 Why the Late-Ming Casebooks Matter
• 4.2 Development of the Chinese Casebooks Down to the Late-Ming Period
• 4.3 The State of Studies on Ming Casebooks
• 4.4 The Importance of Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu to Our Comparative Study of the Legal Development of Late-Ming China
• 5 Two Exemplary Samples of Late-Ming Casebooks by Prefectural Judges: Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu
• 5.1 Publishing Judicial Casebooks as a Key to Success
• 5.2 Yan Junyan, the Promotion-Seeking Casebook Writer
• 5.3 The Publication of the First Impression of the Mengshui zhai cundu in Light of the Prefaces by Cantonese Literary Leaders
• 5.4 The Southern Ming Hongguang Court and the Publication of the Second Impression of the Mengshui zhai cundu with the "Foreword" by Li Yue
• 5.5 Li Qing, the Profit-Making Casebook Writer
• 5.6 Li Qing's Excellent Connections with a Commercial Publisher and the Publication of Zheyu xinyu
• 5.7 The Intentions, Benefits, and Implications of Yan Junyan and Li Qing's Publishing Their Casebooks
• 6 The High Degree of Consistency of Judicial Rulings as Reflected in the Case Reports from Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu
• 6.1 The Structure and Classification System of Cases in Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu
• 6.2 Case Analysis
• 6.3 Concluding Remarks
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• 1 Yan Junyan's Other Family Members
• 2 Yan Junyan's Artistic Achievements and Literary Works
• 3 The Sources and Status of Research on Yan Junyan
• 4 Sample Cases from the Two Casebooks
• Bibliography.