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Author : Derk Bodde,Clarence Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1967-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674733193
Author : Robert E. Hegel,Katherine N. Carlitz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295997544
In this fascinating, multidisciplinary volume, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and the arts of crafting persuasive texts in a range of documents including crime reports, legislation, novels, prayers, and law suits. Their focus is the late Ming and Qing periods (c. 1550-1911); their documents range from plaints filed at the local level by commoners, through various texts produced by the well-to-do, to the legal opinions penned by China's emperors. Writing and Law in Late Imperial China explores works of crime-case fiction, judicial handbooks for magistrates and legal secretaries, popular attitudes toward clergy and merchants as reflected in legal plaints, and the belief in a parallel, otherworldly judicial system that supports earthly justice.
Author : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low,Robin D.S. Yates
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004300538
In Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates offer the first detailed study and translation into English of two important early Chinese legal texts from the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE).
Author : Vai Io Lo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781785363092
Law and Society in China examines the interplay between law and society from imperial to present-day China. This synoptic book traces the developments of law in Chinese societies, investigates the role of law in social governance, and discusses China’s ongoing reforms towards the rule of law with Chinese characteristics. In fostering a comprehensive, rather than piecemeal and disconnected, understanding of the interaction between law and society in China, this book will reduce misconceptions about and enhance appreciation for Chinese law.
Author : Geoffrey MacCormack
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820317225
By the end of the eighth century A.D., imperial China had established a system of administrative and penal law, the main institutions of which lasted until the collapse of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1911. The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law studies the views held throughout the centuries by the educated elite on the role of law in government, the relationship between law and morality, and the purpose of punishment. Geoffrey MacCormack's introduction offers a brief history of legal development in China, describes the principal contributions to the law of the Confucian and Legalist schools, and identifies several other attributes that might be said to constitute the "spirit" of the law. Subsequent chapters consider these attributes, which include conservatism, symbolism, the value attached to human life, the technical construction of the codes, the rationality of the legal process, and the purposes of punishment. A study of the "spirit" of the law in imperial China is particularly appropriate, says MacCormack, for a number of laws in the penal codes on family relationships, property ownership, and commercial transactions were probably never meant to be enforced. Rather, such laws were more symbolic and expressed an ideal toward which people should strive. In many cases even the laws that were enforced, such as those directed at the suppression of theft or killing, were also regarded as an emphatic expression of the right way to behave. Throughout his study, MacCormack distinguishes between "official," or penal and administrative, law, which emanated from the emperor to his officials, and "unofficial," or customary, law, which developed in certain localities or among associations of merchants and traders. In addition, MacCormack pays particular attention to the law's emphasis on the hierarchical ordering of relationships between individuals such as ruler and minister, ruler and subject, parent and child, and husband and wife. He also seeks to explain why, over nearly thirteen centuries, there was little change in the main moral and legal prescriptions, despite enormous social and economic changes.
Author : Ting Zhang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295747170
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.
Author : Matthew Harvey Sommer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804745598
This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804002
Imperial China’s dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cultural, and legal history. Until now, only the Tang (618–907 C.E.) and Qing (1644–1911 C.E.) codes have been available in English translation. The present book is the first English translation of The Great Ming Code (Da Ming lu), which reached its final form in 1397. The translation is preceded by an introductory essay that places the Code in historical context, explores its codification process, and examines its structure and contents. A glossary of Chinese terms is also provided. One of the most important law codes in Chinese history, The Great Ming Code represents a break with the past, following the alien-ruled Yuan (Mongol) dynasty, and the flourishing of culture under the Ming, the last great Han-ruled dynasty. It was also a model for the Qing code, which followed it, and is a fundamental source for understanding Chinese society and culture. The Code regulated all the perceived major aspects of social affairs, aiming at the harmony of political, economic, military, familial, ritual, international, and legal relations in the empire and cosmic relations in the universe. The all-encompassing nature of the Code makes it an encyclopedic document, providing rich materials on Ming history. Because of the pervasiveness of legal proceedings in the culture generally, the Code has relevance far beyond the specialized realm of Chinese legal studies. The basic value system and social norms that the Code imposed became so thoroughly ingrained in Chinese society that the Manchus, who conquered China and established the Qing dynasty, chose to continue the Code in force with only minor changes. The Code made a considerable impact on the legal cultures of other East Asian countries: Yi dynasty Korea, Le dynasty Vietnam, and late Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan. Examining why and how some rules in the Code were adopted and others rejected in these countries will certainly enhance our understanding of the shared culture and indigenous identities in East Asia.
Author : Anthony Jerome Barbieri-Low,Robin D. S. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : China
ISBN : 9004300236
Author : Rune Svarverud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004160194
The topic of this book is the early introduction and reception of international law in China. International law is studied as part of the introduction of the Western sciences and as a theoretical orientation in international affairs 1847-1911.
Author : Rune Svarverud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047420644
The topic of this book is the early introduction and reception of international law in China. International law is studied as part of the introduction of the Western sciences and as a theoretical orientation in international affairs 1847-1911.
Author : Li Chen,Madeleine Zelin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004288492
The twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge in structuring social relations, property rights, popular culture, imperial governance, and ideas of modernity; they also provide insight into the roles of law and legal knowledge in giving form to an emerging revolutionary ideology and to policies that continue to affect China to the present day.
Author : Melissa Ann Macauley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804731355
Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents. Litigation masters emerge as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in 18th- and 19th-century China.
Author : Derk Bodde,Clarence Morris
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. P
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044700305
Author : Derk Bodde,Clarence Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1344354454
