The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China : Toward a Historical-Social Jurisprudence.

Intro -- Contents -- Author Biographies -- Series Foreword -- Editor's Introduction -- Part 1 Women and the Law -- Chapter 1 A Ming-Qing Transition in Chinese Women's History? The Perspective from Law -- Scholarship on Women in the Late Ming and Qing -- The Ming-Qing Present -- The Past -- The Future -- The Perspective from Law -- Betrothal -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Property -- The Peasantization of Law -- Chapter 2 Women's Choices under the Law: Marriage, Divorce, and Illicit Sex in the Qing and the Republic -- Part 1: The Qing -- The Legal Categories and Pertinent Laws -- Qing Constructions -- Variant Concepts in Legal and Social Practice -- Women as Victims -- The Burdens of Passive Agency -- Part 2: The Republic -- Women's Agency in Guomindang Law -- Women's Agency in Practice -- Chapter 3 Marriage, Law, and Revolution: Divorce Law Practice in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region -- Evolution of Marriage Legislation -- Divorce Suits in the Context of Revolution -- Women in Divorce Litigation -- Kangshu -- Gongjiaren -- Peasant Women -- Peasant Husbands in Divorce Litigation -- Tiaobo and Peimi -- A Peasant Husband Battles to Save His Marriage -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 从事实别居到法律别居 清代到民国时期夫妻别居的 权利和义务 (From De Facto Separation to Legal Separation: Rights and Obligations in Husband-Wife Separations from the Qing to the Republic) -- 一 的提出 -- 二 从清代到民国 事实别居的权利和义务的变化 -- 三 民国时期 法律别居的权利和义务的扩大和明确 -- 四 别居现 与妇女权利的关系 -- 一 生存理性与妇女权利 -- 二 别居与离婚的利益比 -- 三 事实别居与法律别居的比 -- 结 -- Chapter 5 Representation and Practice in "Privately Settling Illicit Sex Offenses," with Attention to the "Third Realm" from the Late Imperial Period to the Present -- Research from Contemporary Case Records of "Privately Settling Illicit Sex Offenses" -- "Privately Settling Illicit Sex Offenses" in the Qing Code -- "Privately Settling Illicit Sex Offenses" in Qing Legal Practice.

Private Settlement before the State Was Aware of the Matter -- Private Settlement after the State Was Aware of the Matter -- Changes in the Modern Conception of Illicit Sex Crimes -- A Substantive Split in "Privately Settling Illicit Sex Offenses" -- Rape Cases and Public Prosecution -- Private Settlement of Rape Cases under the Public Prosecution System -- Private Settlement in the Absence of Prosecution -- Withdrawing a Complaint -- Rape and Complaint by the Victim Herself -- Part 2 Custom, Mediation, and Law -- Chapter 6 Between Informal Mediation and Formal Adjudication: The Third Realm of Qing Civil Justice -- Three Stages in a Qing Lawsuit -- The Initial Stage -- The Middle Stage -- Resolution in the Middle Stage -- The Final Stage: The Court Session -- Justice in the Third Realm -- The Court as Catalyst Prompting a Settlement -- The Role of Court Opinion -- The Xiangbao -- Sources of Abuse in the Third Realm -- Xiangbao Power and Abuse -- Runner Power and Abuse -- Formal, Informal, and Third-Realm Justice -- State and Society Seen Through the Judicial Process -- Chapter 7 代中国 "法律渊源"中的 "习惯法" ("Customary Law" as the "Source of Law" in Modern China) -- 一 "习惯法" 的创制 与 国民法典的比 -- 二 " 土人情、习俗土例"与 "习惯法" -- 三 "习惯法" 抑或"亚欧礼教之殊" -- 四 继受法与固有法的冲突 -- 五 民初大理 的司法实 "习惯法"的成立 件 -- 六 国民党时期习惯法理 的内在矛盾 -- 七 结 在古今中 之 -- Chapter 8 尸体危 的法外生成 以当代中国的 尸抗争事例为 中心的分析 (Extralegal Origins of the Dangers of a Corpse: An Analysis of Case Examples of "Protesting with a Corpse" in Contemporary China) -- 一 从" 发旺事件" -- 二 "事件的类型学"再思 尸抗争 为的反法治性 -- 一 20世纪80年代以来 尸抗争事例的广泛分布 -- 二 法外收场 事件类型学的另一 -- 三 尸体危 的生成机制/ 念 -- 一 "图 得利"的社会 忆 -- 二 "丧 "礼仪的社会功 -- 三 " 理死"中的"冤抑"生成 -- 四 尸体危 与法治框架下的国家权力强化 -- Part 3 The System of "Turning Oneself In" in Criminal Justice -- Chapter 9 The System of "Turning Oneself In" in Qing and Contemporary China: Some Reflections on Legal Modernism.

Indigenous Characteristics and Continuity -- Changes in the System -- Changes in the Conception of Legal Subject -- Changes in the Evaluation of Motive -- Changes in Terms of to Whom One Could Turn Oneself In -- Changes in the Outcome of Turning Oneself In -- Reflections on Modernism -- Rational Formalism -- Instrumental Rationality -- Individualism -- Part 4 Administration and Law -- Chapter 10 Centralized-Minimalist Government: The Lake Weishan Issue and the Chinese Mediatory System of Government -- The Lake Weishan Issue: Background -- How the Policy of the Central Government Was Thwarted -- A Working Group is Sent to the Lake Area -- The Inter-Ministerial Report and Its Plan -- The Xuzhou Meeting -- A Review -- How the Central Government Worked Out a Decision -- Cui Naifu's Little Solution Plan -- Wherever There's Trouble, Give It to Shandong -- The Central Government Drops the Gavel -- Why THREE Documents? -- Centralized-Minimalist Government -- The Structure of Centralized Authority -- The Daily Model of Minimalist Governance -- Part 5 International Law -- Chapter 11 Sovereignty and "Civilization": International Law and East Asia in the Nineteenth Century -- "International Society" in Nineteenth-Century International Law -- "Civilization" -- Positivism -- Different Responses of China and Japan -- China: "The Just Law of All Nations" -- Japan: Bunmei kaika -- The First Sino-Japanese War: "Civilization" and "Barbarism" -- Japan: A Warpath toward "Civilization" -- Japan: A Big Show -- China: A Feeble Voice -- The West: Evaluating Students -- Japan: Earning a High Score -- China: Flunking Out -- Conclusion -- Part 6 Theoretical Explorations -- Chapter 12 以实 再 征 本--基于 征 本的多 向与 用 (Using the "Logic of Practice" to Explicate "Symbolic Capital"-Based on the Multiple Faces and Uses of Symbolic Capital) -- 一 布 厄的学术与政治 -- 二 征 本的概念梳理.

一 征 本的 体与依 性 -- 二 征 本的建构与 化 -- 三 征 本的双 与积累 -- 三 征 本在实 中的多 用 -- 一 内向性的正向作用 -- 二 外向性的正向 用 -- 三 否定性 用 -- 四 征 本 构之中有建 -- Chapter 13 Reconstructing Max Weber's "Sociology of Law": The Power of Idealism and the Limits of Objectivity -- Reconstructing Concepts: "Form/Substance" -- The Categories of "Legal Thinking" -- "Substantive Rationality" -- The Power of Dualism: Form/Materie -- "The Anti-Formal Tendencies in Modern Legal Development" -- Reconstructing the Theses: Law and Capitalism -- Weber's Hypotheses -- Weber's Anxiety and Decision -- A Reconstruction of the Relation between Law, Capitalism, and "Rationality" -- Conclusion.

The assembled articles in The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China illustrate a new "historical-social jurisprudence," and explore the possible conceptual underpinnings of a modern Chinese legal system that would both accommodate and integrate the unavoidable paradoxes of contemporary China.

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