Authors: Madeleine Zelin (Editor), Jonathan K. Ocko (Editor), Robert Gardella
ISBN-13: 9780804746397, ISBN-10: 0804746397
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: 1
Madeleine Zelin is Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Jonathan K. Ocko is Professor and Head of the Department of History at North Carolina State University, and an Adjunct Professor of Chinese Legal History at Duke Law School. Robert Gardella is professor in the Humanities Department at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Providing a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly on contract and property, in Qing and Republican history, this volume provides case studies to explicate how these institutions worked, while situating them firmly in their broader social context.
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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | A Critique of Rights of Property in Prewar China | 17 |
2 | Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: The Documentation of Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan | 37 |
3 | Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence: Why County Courts Failed to Prevent Violent Disputes over Property in Eighteenth-Century China | 94 |
4 | Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights | 120 |
5 | The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts | 159 |
6 | The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship to the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China | 178 |
7 | Supplemental Payment in Urban Property Contracts in Mid to Late Qing Shanghai | 209 |
8 | Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard | 230 |
9 | Custom, the Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China | 269 |
10 | Companies in Debt: Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 | 298 |
11 | Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: Paradigms and Patterns | 327 |
Chinese Names and Terms | 349 | |
Bibliography | 359 | |
List of Contributors | 379 | |
Index | 381 |