Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s

Law

Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s

By Li Chen
Brill Academic Publishers February 2015

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789004288485
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Publication
February 2015
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Paperback

Details

The twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge in structuring social relations, property rights, popular culture, imperial governance, and ideas of modernity; they also provide insight into the roles of law and legal knowledge in giving form to an emerging revolutionary ideology and to policies that continue to affect China to the present day.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ways of Rethinking Chinese Law and History

Part I. Meaning and Practice of Law
Chapter 1. Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice – Jianpeng Deng
Chapter 2. Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late-Qing and Republican China – Taisu Zhang
Chapter 3. Social Practice and Judicial Politics in “Grave Destruction” Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 – Weiting Guo
Chapter 4. Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and its Implications for Legal Practice and Principle – Janet Theiss
Chapter 5. “Law Is One Thing, and Virtue Is Another”: Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai – Bryna Goodman
Chapter 6. Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing – Zhao Ma

Part II. Production and Application of Legal Knowledge
Chapter 7. The Community of Legal Experts in 16th- and 17th-Century China – Yanhong Wu
Chapter 8. Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 – Ting Zhang
Chapter 9. Contestation over Legal Knowledge and Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China – Li Chen
Chapter 10. Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China – Margaret Wan
Chapter 11. Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing – Daniel Asen
Chapter 12. Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law – Jennifer Altehenger
HKD 2,274.30

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Law

View all
Perspectives on Evidentiary Privileges
The Carswell Company Ltd.

Perspectives on Evidentiary Privileges

Christopher D.L. Hunt
The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty
Oxford University Press

The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty

Micah Schwartzman; Chad Flanders; Zoe Robinson
HKD 1,702.35
Intentional Tort Litigation in Australia: Assault, False Imprisonment, Malicious Prosecution and Related Claims
The Federation Press

Intentional Tort Litigation in Australia: Assault, False Imprisonment, Malicious Prosecution and Related Claims

Corrie Goodhand; Peter O’Brien
HKD 877.00
Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries
Edward Elgar Publishing

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries

Abbe E. L. Brown; Charlotte Waelde
HKD 2,723.76
The Civil Court Practice 2025: The Green Book
LexisNexis U.K.

The Civil Court Practice 2025: The Green Book

Jason Raeburn; David Robinson; Brett Dixon
Politically Motivated Justice: Authoritarian Legacies and Their Role in Shaping Constitutional Practices in the Former Soviet Union
T.M.C. Asser Press

Politically Motivated Justice: Authoritarian Legacies and Their Role in Shaping Constitutional Practices in the Former Soviet Union

Artem Galushko
HKD 1,462.00