Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400

by Valerie Hansen

Book Overview

This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300209118
• ISBN13: 9780300209112
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"