Contract and Property in Early Modern China / edited by Madeleine Zelin, Johnathan K. Ocko, Robert Gardella.
Allee, Mark A. (Mark Anton) contributor., contributor.; Buoye, Thomas, contributor, contributor.; Cohen, Myron L., 1937- contributor., contributor.; Gardella, Robert contributor, contributor.; Gardella, Robert editor.; Kwan, Man Bun, 1955- contributor, contributor.; Ocko, Johnathan K., editor.; Ocko, Jonathan, contributor, contributor.; Osborne, Anne contributor, contributor.; Shaoting, Feng, contributor, contributor.; Shiroyama, Tomoko, 1965- contributor, contributor.; Zelin, Madeleine contributor, contributor.; Zelin, Madeleine editor.
2022
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Title
Contract and Property in Early Modern China / edited by Madeleine Zelin, Johnathan K. Ocko, Robert Gardella.
Added Author
Allee, Mark A. (Mark Anton) contributor., contributor.
Buoye, Thomas, contributor, contributor.
Cohen, Myron L., 1937- contributor., contributor.
Gardella, Robert contributor, contributor.
Gardella, Robert editor.
Kwan, Man Bun, 1955- contributor, contributor.
Ocko, Johnathan K., editor.
Ocko, Jonathan, contributor, contributor.
Osborne, Anne contributor, contributor.
Shaoting, Feng, contributor, contributor.
Shiroyama, Tomoko, 1965- contributor, contributor.
Zelin, Madeleine contributor, contributor.
Zelin, Madeleine editor.
Buoye, Thomas, contributor, contributor.
Cohen, Myron L., 1937- contributor., contributor.
Gardella, Robert contributor, contributor.
Gardella, Robert editor.
Kwan, Man Bun, 1955- contributor, contributor.
Ocko, Johnathan K., editor.
Ocko, Jonathan, contributor, contributor.
Osborne, Anne contributor, contributor.
Shaoting, Feng, contributor, contributor.
Shiroyama, Tomoko, 1965- contributor, contributor.
Zelin, Madeleine contributor, contributor.
Zelin, Madeleine editor.
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2004
Description
1 online resource (408 p.) : 10 tables
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Part 1. Contract and the Establishment of Property Rights
1. A Critique of Rights of Property in Prewar China
2. Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China:
3. Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence:
4. Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights
5. The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts
6. The Missing Metaphor:
Part 2. Contract and the Practice of Business
7. Supplemental Payment in Urban Property Contracts in Mid to Late Qing Shanghai
8. Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard
9. Custom, the Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China
10. Companies in Debt: Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937
11. Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China:
Chinese Names and Terms
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Contents
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Part 1. Contract and the Establishment of Property Rights
1. A Critique of Rights of Property in Prewar China
2. Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China:
3. Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence:
4. Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights
5. The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts
6. The Missing Metaphor:
Part 2. Contract and the Practice of Business
7. Supplemental Payment in Urban Property Contracts in Mid to Late Qing Shanghai
8. Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard
9. Custom, the Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China
10. Companies in Debt: Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937
11. Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China:
Chinese Names and Terms
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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.
Language Note
In English.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Location
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Alternate Title
DeGruyter online
Language
English
ISBN
9780804766944
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