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The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence /

The assembled articles in The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China illustrate a new "historical-social jurisprudence," and explore the possible conceptual underpinnings of a modern Chinese legal system that would both accommodate and integrate the unavoidable paradoxes of contempo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Huang, Philip C., 1940- (Autor, Editor ), Bernhardt, Kathryn (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Social sciences of practice ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.