Chinese law knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s / edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin.
| Other author | Chen, Li (Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies) |
| Other author | Zelin, Madeleine. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] |
| Description | xii, 396 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective, 2212-1730 ; volume 3 |
| Contents | Classifications of litigation and implications for Qing judicial practice / Jianpeng Deng -- Kinship hierarchies and property institutions in late Qing and Republican China / Taisu Zhang -- Social practice and judicial politics in "grave destruction" cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 / Weiting Guo -- Elite engagement with the judicial system in the Qing and its implications for legal practice and legal principle / Janet Theiss -- "Law is one thing, and virtue is another" : vernacular readings of law and legal process in 1920s Shanghai / Bryna Goodman -- Wayward daughters : sex, family, and law in early twentieth-century Beijing / Zhao Ma -- The community of legal experts in sixteenth and seventeenth century China / Yanhong Wu -- Marketing legal information : commercial publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 / Ting Zhang -- Regulating private legal specialists and the limits of imperial power / in Qing China / Li Chen -- Court case ballads : popular ideals of justice in late Qing and Republican China / Margaret B. Wan -- Old forensics in practice : investigating suspicious deaths and administering justice in Republican Beijing / Daniel Asen -- Simplified legal knowledge in the early PRC : explaining and publishing the marriage law / Jennifer Altehenger. |
| General 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 |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014041889 |
| ISBN | 9789004288485 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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