Contract and property in early modern China / edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.
2004
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Title
Contract and property in early modern China / edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Call Number
KNN858 .C665 2004
Former Call Number
A.Ch 500 C768 2004
ISBN
0804746397 (alk. paper)
Description
vi, 398 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)53458841
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-378) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction / Madeleine Zelin Jonathan Ocko Robert Gardella
1
1
A Critique of Rights of Property in Prewar China / Madeleine Zelin
17
2
Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: The Documentation of Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan / Myron L. Cohen
37
3
Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence: Why County Courts Failed to Prevent Violent Disputes over Property in Eighteenth-Century China / Thomas Buoye
94
4
Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights / Anne Osborne
120
5
The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts / Mark A. Allee
159
6
The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship to the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China / Jonathan Ocko
178
7
Supplemental Payment in Urban Property Contracts in Mid to Late Qing Shanghai / Feng Shaoting
209
8
Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard / Madeleine Zelin
230
9
Custom, the Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China / Man Bun Kwan
269
10
Companies in Debt: Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama
298
11
Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: Paradigms and Patterns / Robert Gardella
327
Chinese Names and Terms
349
Bibliography
359
List of Contributors
379
Index
381