Chinese law : knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s / edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin.
2015
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Title
Chinese law : knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s / edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
Call Number
KNN107 .C48 2015
Former Call Number
Ch.P 190 C433 2015
ISBN
9789004288485 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004288481 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004288492 (e-book)
9004288481 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004288492 (e-book)
Description
xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)893669015
Note
Includes papers presented at the International Workshop on Chinese Legal History, Culture, and Modernity, held at Columbia University in New York City in early May 2012.--Acknowledgement
Bibliography, etc. Note
Incldues bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
List of Contributors
x
Rethinking Chinese Law and History: An Introduction / Madeleine Zelin
1
pt. I
Meaning and Practice of Law
1.
Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice / Jianpeng Deng
17
2.
Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late Qing and Republican China / Taisu Zhang
47
3.
Social Practice and Judicial Politics in "Grave Destruction" Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683--1895 / Weiting Guo
84
4.
Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and Its Implications for Legal Practice and Legal Principle / Janet Theiss
124
5.
"Law is One Thing, and Virtue is Another": Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai / Bryna Goodman
148
6.
Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing / Zhao Ma
176
pt. 2
Production and Application of Legal Knowledge
7.
The Community of Legal Experts in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China / Yanhong Wu
207
8.
Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644--1911 / Ting Zhang
231
9.
Regulating Private Legal Specialists and the Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China / Li Chen
254
10.
Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China / Margaret B. Wan
287
11.
Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing / Daniel Asen
321
12.
Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law / Jennifer Altehenger
342
Index
367