Writing and law in late Imperial China : crime, conflict, and judgment
by
 
Carlitz, Katherine.

Title
Writing and law in late Imperial China : crime, conflict, and judgment
 
Asian law series ;

Author
Carlitz, Katherine.

ISBN
9780295986913

Publication Information
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Physical Description
xv, 343 p. ; 24 cm.

Series
Asian law series ; no. 18.

Contents
Writing and law / Making a case : characterizing the filial son / Explaining the shrew : narratives of spousal violence and the critique of masculinity in eighteenth-century criminal cases / Between oral and written cultures : Buddhist monks in Qing legal plaints / Art of persuasion in literature and law / Filial felons : leniency and legal reasoning in Qing China / Discourse on insolvency and negligence in eighteenth-century China / Poverty tales and statutory politics in mid-Qing fraud cases / Indictment rituals and the judicial continuum in late Imperial China / Reading court cases from the Song and the Ming : fact and fiction, law and literature / Genre and justice in late Qing China : Wu Woyao's Strange Case of Nine Murders and its antecedents / Interpretive communities : legal meaning in Qing law

Subject Term
Law -- China -- History.
 
Legal stories, Chinese -- History and criticism.
 
Legal composition.
 
Law and literature.
 
Law in literature.

Electronic Access
Table of contents only

Added Author
Carlitz, Katherine.
 
Hegel, Robert E., 1943-

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and index.

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NPM LibraryKNQ48.7 W75 2007106032781B*西文書二區(調閱申請)