Chinese law
Subtitle: knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s
By: edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin
Series: Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective -- volume 3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789004288485; 9789004288492
Subjects: Law; Congresses; China; History
Notes: 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
Table of contents: title: Classifications of litigation and implications for Qing judicial practice / Jianpeng Deng; title: Kinship hierarchies and property institutions in late Qing and Republican China / Taisu Zhang; title: Social practice and judicial politics in "grave destruction" cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 / Weiting Guo; title: Elite engagement with the judicial system in the Qing and its implications for legal practice and legal principle / Janet Theiss; title: "Law is one thing, and virtue is another" : vernacular readings of law and legal process in 1920s Shanghai / Bryna Goodman; title: Wayward daughters : sex, family, and law in early twentieth-century Beijing / Zhao Ma; title: The community of legal experts in sixteenth and seventeenth century China / Yanhong Wu; title: Marketing legal information : commercial publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 / Ting Zhang; title: Regulating private legal specialists and the limits of imperial power / in Qing China / Li Chen; title: Court case ballads : popular ideals of justice in late Qing and Republican China / Margaret B. Wan; title: Old forensics in practice : investigating suspicious deaths and administering justice in Republican Beijing / Daniel Asen; title: Simplified legal knowledge in the early PRC : explaining and publishing the marriage law / Jennifer Altehenger.