Trial of modernity : judicial reform in early twentieth-century China, 1901-1937 /

"This is the first book in English on the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a large gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. Author Xiaoqun Xu offers a richly textured analysis of how judicial reform...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xu, Xiaoqun, 1954-
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Justice, Administration of > China > History.
Law reform > China > History.
Droit > Réforme > Chine > Histoire.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Justice, Administration of
Law reform
Justizreform
Law - Non-U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica.
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: envisioning reform from the center. Western models and Chinese practices: the new policy decade
  • Judicial modernity as performance of formality: the Beuyang Era
  • Justice under the party-state: the Nanjing Decade
  • Part II: provincial setting and financial constraints
  • Provincial institutions and judicial reform in Jiangsu
  • Judicial finance: nation, province, and county
  • Part III: the county judicial process
  • The social context of county judicial functions
  • Power and justice in local society
  • Prison reform and county jails
  • Part IV: between formalization and informal practices. "Quick justice": punishing robbers and bandits
  • The praxis of petition and the economy of false accusation.

Ejemplares similares