Writing and Law in Late Imperial China : Crime, Conflict, and Judgment.

Cover -- Title -- Coprright -- Contetns -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Terminology -- Introduction: Writing and Law -- PART I: Rhetoric and Persuasion -- 1 Making a Case: Characterizing the Filial Son -- 2 Explaining the Shrew: Narratives of Spousal Violence and the Critique of Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Criminal Cases -- 3 Between Oral and Written Cultures: Buddhist Monks in Qing Legal Plaints -- 4 The Art of Persuasion in Literature and Law -- PART II: Legal Discourse and the Power of the State -- 5 Filial Felons: Leniency and Legal Reasoning in Qing China -- 6 The Discourse on Insolvency and Negligence in Eighteenth-Century China -- 7 Poverty Tales and Statutory Politics in Mid-Qing Fraud Cases -- 8 Indictment Rituals and the Judicial Continuum in Late Imperial China -- PART III: Literature and Legal Procedure -- 9 Reading Court Cases from the Song and the Ming: Fact and Fiction, Law and Literature -- 10 Beyond Bao: Moral Ambiguity and the Law in Late Imperial Chinese Narrative Literature -- 11 Genre and Justice in Late Qing China: Wu Woyao's Strange Case of Nine Murders and Its Antecedents -- PART IV: Retrospective -- 12 Interpretive Communities: Legal Meaning in Qing Law -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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