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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Contract and property in early modern China. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003024728 (OCoLC)53458841 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Madeleine Zelin; Jonathan K Ocko; Robert Gardella |
ISBN: | 1417519401 9781417519408 9781417519401 0804766940 9780804766944 |
OCLC Number: | 55848279 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 398 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | A critique of rights of property in pre-war China / Madeleine Zelin -- Writs of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan / Myron L. Cohen -- Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China / Thomas Buoye -- Property, taxes, and state protection of rights / Anne Osborne -- The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts / Mark Allee -- The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China / Jonathan Ocko -- Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai / Feng Shaoting -- Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard / Madeleine Zelin -- Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China / Man Bun Kwan -- Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama -- Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns / Robert Gardella. |
Responsibility: | edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella. |
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"...this volume in its detailed study of contracts in early modern China is a timely contribution for anyone interested in China's policy and economic development today." * Canadian Journal of Law and Society * "This book is essential reading for scholars and graduate students interested in Chinese legal, social, and economic history."-History: Reviews of New Books "...the eleven papers in this volume present a fascinating range of case studies and historical details on the role of contracts and property rights in Chinese conomic transactions..."- EH.NET Read more...

