Contract and property in early modern China
By: edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.
Contributors: Zelin, Madeleine.; Ocko, Jonathan K., 1946-; Gardella, Robert.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Contracts -- China -- History; Right of property -- China -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: A critique of rights of property in pre-war China / Madeleine Zelin; title: Writs of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan / Myron L. Cohen; title: Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China / Thomas Buoye; title: Property, taxes, and state protection of rights / Anne Osborne; title: The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts / Mark Allee; title: The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China / Jonathan Ocko; title: Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai / Feng Shaoting; title: Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard / Madeleine Zelin; title: Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China / Man Bun Kwan; title: Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama; title: Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns / Robert Gardella.