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Title The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence / edited by Philip C.C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The social sciences of practice ; 3
Social sciences of practice ; 3.
Contents Part 1. Women and the law -- 1. A Ming-Qing transition in Chinese women's history? : the perspective from law / Kathryn Bernhardt -- 2. Women's choices under the law : marriage, divorce, and illicit sex in the Qing and the Republic / Philip C. C. Huang -- 3. Marriage, law, and revolution : divorce law practice in the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region / Liu Yang -- 4. (From de facto separation to legal separation : rights and obligations in husband-wife separations from the Qing to the Republic) / (Hongying Li) -- 5. Representation and practice in "privately settling illicit sex offenses," with attention to the "Third Realm" from the late Imperial Period to the present / Fenghua Jing -- Part 2. Custom, mediation, and law -- 6. Between informal mediation and formal adjudication : the Third Realm of Qing civil justice / Philip C. C. Huang -- 7. ("Customary law" as the "source of law" in modern China) / (Shengfeng Yu) -- 8. (Extralegal origins of the dangers of a corpse : an analysis of case examples of "protesting with a corpse" in contemporary China) / (Chenjun You) -- Part 3. The system of "turning oneself in" in criminal justice -- 9. The system of "turning oneself in" in Qing and contemporary China : some reflections on legal modernism / Zhengyang Jiang -- Part 4. Administration and law -- 10. Centralized-minimalist government : the Lake Weishan issue and the Chinese mediatory system of government / Lei Tian -- Part 5. International law -- 11. Sovereignty and "civilization" : international law and East Asia in the nineteenth century / Junnan Lai -- Part 6. Theoretical explorations -- 12. (Using the "logic of practice" to explicate "symbolic capital" : based on the multiple faces and uses of symbolic capital) / (Haixia Wang) -- 13. Reconstructing Max Weber's "Sociology of law" : the power of idealism and the limits of objectivity / Junnan Lai.
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Subject Law -- China -- History.
Law.
China.
History.
Jurisprudence -- China -- History.
Jurisprudence.
Justice, Administration of -- China -- History.
Justice, Administration of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Added Author Huang, Philip C., 1940- author, editor.
Bernhardt, Kathryn, author, editor.
Other Form: Print version: History and theory of legal practice in China 9789004276437 (DLC) 2014012708 (OCoLC)875404422
ISBN 9789004276444 (electronic book)
9004276440 (electronic book)
1306942500 (e-book)
9781306942508 (e-book)
9789004276437
9004276432