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Title Chinese law : knowledge, practice and transformation, 1530s to 1950s / edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Series Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, 2212-1730 ; Volume 3
Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; Volume 3.
Note 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
Contents Rethinking Chinese law and history : an introduction / Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin -- Classifications of litigation and implications for Qing judicial practice / Jianpeng Deng -- Kinship hierarchies and property institutions in late Qing and republican China / Taisu Zhang -- Social practice and judicial politics in "grave destruction" cases in Qing taiwan, 1683-1895 / Weiting Guo -- Elite engagement with the judicial system in the Qing and its implications for legal practice and legal principle / Janet Theiss -- "Law is one thing, and virtue is another" : vernacular readings of law and legal process in 1920s Shanghai / Bryna Goodman -- Wayward daughters : sex, family, and law in early twentieth-century Beijing / Zhao Ma -- The community of legal experts in sixteenth and seventeenth century China / Yanhong Wu -- Marketing legal information : commercial publications of the great Qing code, 1644-1911 / Ting Zhang -- Regulating private legal specialists and the limits of imperial power / in Qing China / Li Chen -- Court case ballads : popular ideals of justice in late Qing and republican China / Margaret B. Wan -- Old forensics in practice : investigating suspicious deaths and administering justice in republican Beijing / Daniel Asen -- Simplified legal knowledge in the early PRC : explaining and publishing the marriage law / Jennifer Altehenger.
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Subject Law -- China -- History -- Congresses.
Law.
China.
History.
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 -- Congresses.
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Chen, Li (Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies), editor.
Zelin, Madeleine, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Chinese law 9789004288485 (DLC) 2014041889 (OCoLC)893669015
ISBN 9789004288492 electronic book
900428849X electronic book
9789004288485
9004288481