Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s to 1950sLi Chen, Madeleine Zelin BRILL, 27.01.2015 - 408 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
An Introduction | 1 |
Part 1 Meaning and Practice of Law | 15 |
Chapter 1 Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice | 17 |
Chapter 2 Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late Qing and Republican China | 47 |
Chapter 3 Social Practice and Judicial Politics in Grave Destruction Cases in Qing Taiwan 16831895 | 84 |
Chapter 4 Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and Its Implications for Legal Practice and Legal Principle | 124 |
Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai | 148 |
Sex Family and Law in Early TwentiethCentury Beijing | 176 |
Chapter 7 The Community of Legal Experts in Sixteenth and SeventeenthCentury China | 207 |
Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code 16441911 | 231 |
Chapter 9 Regulating Private Legal Specialists and the Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China | 254 |
Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China | 287 |
Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing | 321 |
Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law | 342 |
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Part 2 Production and Application of Legal Knowledge | 205 |
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