Chinese Law : Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s To 1950s.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Rethinking Chinese Law and History: An Introduction -- Part 1 Meaning and Practice of Law -- Chapter 1 Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice -- Chapter 2 Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late Qing and Republican China -- Chapter 3 Social Practice and Judicial Politics in "Grave Destruction" Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 -- Chapter 4 Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and Its Implications for Legal Practice and Legal Principle -- Chapter 5 "Law is One Thing, and Virtue is Another": Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai -- Chapter 6 Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing -- Part 2 Production and Application of Legal Knowledge -- Chapter 7 The Community of Legal Experts in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China -- Chapter 8 Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 -- Chapter 9 Regulating Private Legal Specialists and the Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China -- Chapter 10 Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China -- Chapter 11 Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing -- Chapter 12 Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law -- Index.

In Chinese Law, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, the authors provide valuable perspectives on the transformation, knowledge, practice, and effects of Chinese law and justice in the changing historical context of late imperial and modern China.

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