Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China - Hardcover

Zhang, Ting

 
9780295747163: Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0295747161 ISBN 13: 9780295747163
Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China’s legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. Publishers not only extended circulation of the dynastic code and other legal texts but also enhanced the judicial authority of case precedents and unofficial legal commentaries by making them more broadly available in convenient formats. As a result, the laws no longer represented privileged knowledge monopolized by the imperial state and elites. Trade in commercial legal imprints contributed to the formation of a new legal culture that included the free flow of accurate information, the rise of nonofficial legal experts, a large law-savvy population, and a high litigation rate.

Comparing different official and commercial editions of the Qing Code, popular handbooks for amateur legal practitioners, and manuals for community legal lectures, Ting Zhang demonstrates how the dissemination of legal information transformed Chinese law, judicial authority, and popular legal consciousness.

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Ting Zhang is assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland.

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Verlag
University of Washington Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0295747161
ISBN 13 
9780295747163
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Anzahl der Seiten
252
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