Chinese Law - Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s

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.

About the author

Li Chen, J.D. (Illinois 2002), Ph.D. (Columbia 2009), is Assistant Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies at University of Toronto. His publications on law and history include Chinese Law in the Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics, c. 1740s-1840s (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2015)

Madeleine Zelin, Ph.D. (1979) University of California at Berkeley, is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published monographs, translations and articles on China, including The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2005)

Product details

• Assisted by: Li Chen (Editor), Madeleine Zelin (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2015
• EAN: 9789004288485
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28848-5
• No. of pages: 12
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Brill's Modern East Asia in a
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries