Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing

by Philip C.C. Huang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727406
• ISBN13: 9780804727402
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"