Civil Justice in China - Representation and Practice in the Qing

To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing courts rarely handled civil lawsuits--those concerned with disputes over land, debt, marriage, and inheritance--as official Qing representations led us to believe? Is it true that decent people did not use the courts? And is it true that magistrates generally relied more on moral predilections than on codified law in dealing with cases? Based in large part on records of 628 civil dispute cases from three counties from the 1760's to the 1900's, this book reexamines those widely accepted Qing representations in the light of actual practice.
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Summary

Based on newly available records of 628 civil dispute cases from the 1760's to the 1900's, this book challenges many conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system.

Additional text

"This is a book that we have long been waiting for, because it tackles a previously neglected aspect of Chinese law, the civil law."

Product details

• Authors: Philip Huang, Philip C C Huang, Philip C. C. Huang, Huang Philip
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780804727402
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2740-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Law, Society, and Culture in C; Law, Society, and Culture in China; Law, Society, and Culture in China; Law, Society, and Culture in C
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law