The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence

The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence

The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence

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Edition Details

  • Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Kathryn Bernhardt, Philip C. Huang
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): Netherlands
  • Publication Information: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
  • Publication Type (Medium): History
  • Type: Book
  • Series title: Social sciences of practice, v. 3.
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.asia/the-history-and-theory-of-legal-practice-in-china-toward-a-historical-social-jurisprudence/ (Stable identifier)

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XVI, 440 pages ; 25 cm.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Publishers: The Netherlands ; Brill
  • Responsable Person: edited by Philip C.C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt.
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Country/State: Netherlands
  • Number of Editions: 6 editions
  • First edition Date: 2014
  • Last edition Date: 2014
  • Languages: English
  • Language Notes: In English, with four articles in Chinese.
  • Library of Congress Code: KNN122
  • Dewey Code: 349.51
  • ISBN: 9789004276437 9004276432
  • OCLC: 875404422

Main Contents

Part 1. Women and the law
1. A Ming-Qing transition in Chinese women's history? : the perspective from law / Kathryn Bernhardt
2. Women's choices under the law : marriage, divorce, and ILlicit sex in the Qing and the Republic / Philip C.C. Huang
3. Marriage, law, and revolution : divorce law practice in the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region / Liu Yang
4. (From de facto separation to legal separation : rights and obligations in husband-wife separations from the Qing to the Republic) / (Hongying Li)
5. Representation and practice in “privately settling ILlicit sex offenses,” with attention to the “Third Realm” from the late Imperial Period to the present / Fenghua Jing
Part 2. Custom, mediation, and law
6. Between informal mediation and formal adjudication : the Third Realm of Qing civil justice / Philip C.C. Huang
7. (“Customary law” as the “source of law” in modern China) / (Shengfeng Yu)
8. (Extralegal origins of the dangers of a corpse : an analysis of case examples of “protesting with a corpse” in contemporary China) / (Chenjun You)
Part 3. The system of “turning oneself in” in criminal justice
9. The system of “turning oneself in” in Qing and contemporary China : some reflections on legal modernism / Zhengyang Jiang
Part 4. Administration and law
10. Centralized-minimalist government : the Lake Weishan issue and the Chinese mediatory system of government / Lei Tian
Part 5. International law
11. Sovereignty and “civilization” : international law and East Asia in the nineteenth century / Junnan Lai
Part 6. Theoretical explorations
12. (Using the “logic of practice” to explicate “symbolic capital” : based on the multiple faces and uses of symbolic capital) / (Haixia Wang)
13. Reconstructing Max Weber's “Sociology of law” : the power of idealism and the limits of objectivity / Junnan Lai.

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