Talons and teeth : county clerks and runners in the Qing Dynasty / Bradly W. Reed.
2000
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Author
Title
Talons and teeth : county clerks and runners in the Qing Dynasty / Bradly W. Reed.
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Call Number
JS7352.A2 R44 2000
ISBN
0804737584 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xxiii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)41960661
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-306) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations and Conventions
1
Illicit Bureaucrats
1
2
Clerks
31
3
Families, Friends, and Factions
76
4
Runners
122
5
Illicit Allies and the Magistrate's Men
160
6
The Economics of Justice
200
7
The Legitimacy of the Indispensable
246
App. A
Administrative Duties of Clerical Offices in the Ba County Yamen
269
App. B
The Jins of Ba County
271
App. C
Clerical Agreement on Mutual Support and the Dispensation of Legal Case Assignments
273
App. D
Case Fees and Three Fees Regulations
276
App. E
Division of Case Jurisdiction
280
App. F
District Runner Agreement on the Division of Cases
281
Notes
287
Works Cited
299
Character List
307
Index
313