Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China

by Melissa Macauley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731357
• ISBN13: 9780804731355
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"