Research from archival case records : : law, society and culture in China / / Edited by Philip C. C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt.
Legal history studies have often focused mainly on codified law, without attention to actual practice, and on the past, without relating it to the present. As the title— Research from Archival Case Records: Law, Society, and Culture in China —of this book suggests, the authors deliberately follow th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Social Sciences of Practice
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (586 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Editor’s Introduction / Philip C. C. Huang
- 1 The History-of-Practice Approach to Studying Chinese Law (Introduction to Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present) / Philip C. C. Huang
- 2 Women and Property in China, 960–1949, Introduction and Conclusion / Kathryn Bernhardt
- 3 Illicit Bureaucrats / Bradly W. Reed
- 4 From Oral Testimony to Written Records in Qing Legal Cases / Yasuhiko Karasawa
- 5 Abortion in Late Imperial China: Routine Birth Control or Crisis Intervention? / Matthew H. Sommer
- 6 Customary and Judicial Practices as Seen in Criminal Sales of Land in Qing Manchuria / Christopher Isett
- 7 Guoshi Killing: The Continuum of Criminal Intent in Qing and Republican China / Jennifer M. Neighbors
- 8 Between the State and the Village: Land Taxation and “Substantive Governance” in Traditional China / Huaiyin Li
- 9 Village-State Cooperation: Modern Community Schools and Their Funding, Haicheng County, Fengtian, 1905–1931 / Elizabeth VanderVen
- 10 Power Networks and State-Society Relations in Republican China / Danny Hsu
- 11 Ceremony and the Definition of Marriage under Republican Law / Lisa Tran
- 12 Spousal Abuse: Divorce Litigation and the Emergence of Rights Consciousness in Republican China / Margaret Kuo
- 13 Law, Gongqin, and Transnational Polygamy: Family Matters in Fujian and British Malaya, 1855–1942 / Huey Bin Teng
- 14 Centralized Minimalism: Semiformal Governance by Quasi-Officials and Dispute Resolution in China / Philip C. C. Huang
- 15 Court Mediation in China, Past and Present / Philip C. C. Huang
- 16 How a “New Legal History” Might Be Possible: Recent Trends in Chinese Legal History Studies in the United States and Their Implications.