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