Conflict, community, and the state in late imperial Sichuan: making local justice

Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book examines...

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Main Author: Javers, Quinn D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2019
Series:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book examines over 350 legal cases that comprise the "cases of unnatural death" archival file from 1890 to 1900 in Ba County, Sichuan province. The archive presents an untidy array of death, including homicides, suicides, and found bodies. An analysis of the muddled and often petty disputes found in these records reveals the existence of a local system of authority that disciplined and maintained daily life. Often relying on violence, this local justice system occasionally intersected with the state's justice system, but was not dependent on it. This study demonstrates the importance of informal, local authority to our understanding of justice in the late Qing era. Providing a non-elite perspective on Qing power, law, justice, and the role of the state, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian history, as well as legal history and comparative studies of violence
Item Description:Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Stanford University, 2012) issued under title: Conflict, community and crime in fin-de-siècle Sichuan
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Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429030062
0429030061
9780429638763
0429638760
9780429635595
0429635591
9780429641930
0429641931

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