Civil Justice in China : Representation and Practice in the Qing /

To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing courts rarely handled civil lawsuits-those concerned with disputes over land, debt, marriage, and inheritance-as official Qing representations led us t...

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Autor principal: Huang, Philip C. C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Law, Society, and Culture in China
Temas:
Asian Studies.
History > Asian.
LAW / Civil Law.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Law, Society, and Culture in China
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • CHAPTER ONE Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO Defining Categories: Disputes and Lawsuits in North China Villages Before the Communist Revolution
  • CHAPTER THREE Informal Justice: Mediation in North China Villages Before the Communist Revolution
  • CHAPTER FOUR Formal Justice: Codified Law and Magisterial Adjudication in the Qing
  • CHAPTER FIVE Between Informal Mediation and Formal Adjudication: The Third Realm of Qing Justice
  • CHAPTER SIX Two Patterns in the Qing Civil Justice System
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Extent, Cost, and Strategies of Litigation
  • CHAPTER EIGHT From the Perspective of Magistrate Handbooks
  • CHAPTER NINE Max Weber and the Qing Legal and Political Systems
  • Appendixes
  • APPENDIX A Village and County Data
  • APPENDIX B Weights and Measures
  • References
  • Character List
  • Index

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