Social power and legal culture: litigation masters in late imperial China

"Asserting that Litigation in Late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents for commoners and elites alike. Litigation masters - a broad category of legal facilitators ranging from professional plaintmasters to...

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1. Verfasser: Macauley, Melissa (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Univ. Press 1998
Schriftenreihe:Law, society, and culture in China
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Zusammenfassung:"Asserting that Litigation in Late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents for commoners and elites alike. Litigation masters - a broad category of legal facilitators ranging from professional plaintmasters to simple but literate men to whom people turned for assistance - emerge in this study as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century China. These cases reveal the power of scandal to shape entire categories of law in the popular and official imaginations."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XII, 416 S.
ISBN:0804731357

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