Writing and law in late Imperial China : crime, conflict, and judgment
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
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and index.
Field 805:
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