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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55848279 Title: Contract and property in early modern China Author: Madeleine Zelin; Jonathan K Ocko; Robert Gardella Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004. ISBN/ISSN: 1417519401 9781417519408 9781417519401 0804766940 9780804766944 OCLC:55848279

  
  

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Contract and property in early modern China

Author:	Madeleine Zelin; Jonathan K Ocko; Robert Gardella
Publisher:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly the closely related institutions of contract and property, in Qing and Republican China, the papers in this volume spell out how these institutions worked in specific social contexts. Drawing on recent research in far-flung archives, the contributors take as givens both the embeddedness of contract in Chinese social and economic discourse and its role in the spread of commodification. Two papers deal with broad issues: Zelin's argues for a distinctively Chinese heritage of strong property rights, and Ocko's examines the usefulness of American legal scholarship as a comparative analytic framework.  Read more...
Subjects	Contracts -- China -- History. Right of property -- China -- History. China -- Economic conditions. View all subjects
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