Chinese law : : knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s / / edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin.

• Superior document: Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Chen, Li,; Zelin, Madeleine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530's to 1950's , edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge in structuring social relations, property rights, popular culture, imperial governance, and ideas of modernity; they also provide insight into the roles of law and legal knowledge in giving form to an emerging revolutionary ideology and to policies that continue to affect China to the present day. This book is also available in paperback

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Rethinking Chinese Law and History: An Introduction / Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin -- 1 Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice / Jianpeng Deng -- 2 Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late Qing and Republican China / Taisu Zhang -- 3 Social Practice and Judicial Politics in “Grave Destruction” Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683–1895 / Weiting Guo -- 4 Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and Its Implications for Legal Practice and Legal Principle / Janet Theiss -- 5 “Law is One Thing, and Virtue is Another”: Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920's Shanghai / Bryna Goodman -- 6 Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing / Zhao Ma -- 7 The Community of Legal Experts in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century China / Yanhong Wu -- 8 Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644–1911 / Ting Zhang -- 9 Regulating Private Legal Specialists and the Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China / Li Chen -- 10 Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China / Margaret B. Wan -- 11 Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing / Daniel Asen -- 12 Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early prc: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law / Jennifer Altehenger -- Index.