Introduction: Ways of Rethinking Chinese Law and History
Part I. Meaning and Practice of Law
Chapter 1. Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice
- Jianpeng Deng
Chapter 2. Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late-Qing and Republican China
- Taisu Zhang
Chapter 3. Social Practice and Judicial Politics in "Grave Destruction" Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895
- Weiting Guo
Chapter 4. Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and its Implications for Legal Practice and Principle
- Janet Theiss
Chapter 5. "Law Is One Thing, and Virtue Is Another": Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai
- Bryna Goodman
Chapter 6. Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing
- Zhao Ma
Part II. Production and Application of Legal Knowledge
Chapter 7. The Community of Legal Experts in 16th- and 17th-Century China
- Yanhong Wu
Chapter 8. Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911
- Ting Zhang
Chapter 9. Contestation over Legal Knowledge and Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China
- Li Chen
Chapter 10. Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China
- Margaret Wan
Chapter 11. Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing
- Daniel Asen
Chapter 12. Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law
- Jennifer Altehenger
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