Chinese law : : knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s / / edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin.
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 interdisci...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, Volume 3 |
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| 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. |
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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.