Contract and property in early modern China

著者

• Zelin, Madeleine
• Ocko, Jonathan K.
• Gardella, Robert Paul

書誌事項

Contract and property in early modern China

edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella

（Studies of the East Asian Institute）

Stanford University Press, 2004

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-378) and index

収録内容

• A critique of rights of property in prewar 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 to 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

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures Introduction Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan Ocko, Robert Gardella Part One: Contract and the Establishment of Property Rights Chapter 1 A Critique of Rights of Property in Pre-War China Madeleine Zelin Chapter 2 Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: The Documentation of Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan Myron Cohen Chapter 3 Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence: Why County Courts Failed to Prevent Violent Disputes over Property in Eighteenth-century China Thomas Buoye Chapter 4 Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights Anne Osborne Chapter 5 The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts Mark Allee Chapter 6 The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China Jonathan Ocko Part Two: Contract and the Practice of Business Chapter 7 Supplemental Payment in Urban Property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai Feng Shaoting Chapter 8 Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Saltyard Madeleine Zelin Chapter 9 Custom, The Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China Man Bun Kwan Chapter 10 Companies in Debt Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895{-}1937 Tomoko Shiroyama Chapter 11 Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: Paradigms and Patterns Robert Gardella Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Contracts China History, Right of property China History

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA68379269
• ISBN:
  • 0804746397
• LCCN: 2003024728
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Stanford, Calif.
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 398 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : KNQ858
  • DC22 : 346.5104
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Contracts -- China -- History
  • LCSH : Right of property -- China -- History
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00138748