Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared (Law, Society, and Culture in China)

Huang, Philip C. C.

ISBN 10: 0804741115 / ISBN 13: 9780804741118

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2002

Beschreibung

ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm. Summary:"The opening of archives on legal case records and judicial administration in China has made possible a new examination of past assumptions about the Chinese justice system. Scholars can now ask where actual legal practice deviated from official and popular conceptualizations and depictions. In the process, they can arrive at a new understanding not only of the legal system, but of state-society relations and the nature of the Chinese social-political system as a whole.".

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BGCHIN28

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared (Law, Society, and Culture in China)
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0804741115
• ISBN-13: 9780804741118
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Law
  • China

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Inhaltsangabe

What changes occurred and what remained the same in Chinese civil justice from the Qing to the Republic? Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chinese law. It also casts a new light on Chinese law by emphasizing rural areas and by comparing the old and the new.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip C. C. Huang is Professor of History and founding Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent book is Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing (Stanford, 1996).