Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China

Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China
Author: Philip C. Huang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0804741115
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What changes occurred and what remained the same in Chinese civil justice from the Qing to the Republic? Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chinese law. It also casts a new light on Chinese law by emphasizing rural areas and by comparing the old and the new.

Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1994-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0804779279
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The opening of local archives to Western scholars in the 1980's has provided the basis for this reexamination of civil law in Qing and Republican China. This pathbreaking volume demonstrates that, contrary to previous scholarly understanding, Qing and Republican courts dealt extensively with such civil matters as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance, and did so with striking consistency and in conformity with the written code.

Symposium

Symposium
Author: Philip C. Huang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1995
Genre: China
ISBN:
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Research from Archival Case Records

Research from Archival Case Records
Author: Philip C.C. Huang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004271899
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Legal history studies have often focused mainly on codified law, without attention to actual practice, and on the past, without relating it to the present. As the title—Research from Archival Case Records: Law, Society, and Culture in China—of this book suggests, the authors deliberately follow the research method of starting from court actions and only on that basis engage in discussions of laws and legal concepts and theory. The articles cover a range of topics and source materials, both past and present. They provide some surprising findings—about disjunctures between code and practice, adjustments between them, and how those reveal operative principles and logics different from what the legal texts alone might suggest. Contributors are: Kathryn Bernhardt, Danny Hsu, Philip C. C. Huang, Christopher Isett, Yasuhiko Karasawa, Margaret Kuo, Huaiyin Li, Jennifer M. Neighbors, Bradly W. Reed, Matthew H. Sommer, Huey Bin Teng, Lisa Tran, Elizabeth VanderVen, and Chenjun You.

Circulating the Code

Circulating the Code
Author: Ting Zhang
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 029574717X
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Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China’s legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. Publishers not only extended circulation of the dynastic code and other legal texts but also enhanced the judicial authority of case precedents and unofficial legal commentaries by making them more broadly available in convenient formats. As a result, the laws no longer represented privileged knowledge monopolized by the imperial state and elites. Trade in commercial legal imprints contributed to the formation of a new legal culture that included the free flow of accurate information, the rise of nonofficial legal experts, a large law-savvy population, and a high litigation rate. Comparing different official and commercial editions of the Qing Code, popular handbooks for amateur legal practitioners, and manuals for community legal lectures, Ting Zhang demonstrates how the dissemination of legal information transformed Chinese law, judicial authority, and popular legal consciousness.

The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China

The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China
Author: Philip C.C. Huang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004276440
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The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China: Toward a Historical-Social Jurisprudence goes beyond the either/or dichotomy of Chinese vs. Western law, tradition vs. modernity, and the substantive-practical vs. the formal. It does so by proceeding not from abstract legal texts but from the realities of legal practice. Whatever the declared intent of a law, it must in actual application adapt to social realities. It is the two dimensions of representation and practice, and law and society, that together make up the entirety of a legal system. The assembled articles by the editors and a new generation of Chinese scholars illustrate a new “historical-social jurisprudence,” and explore the possible conceptual underpinnings of a modern Chinese legal system that would both accommodate and integrate the unavoidable paradoxes of contemporary China.

The Draft Civil Code of the People's Republic of China

The Draft Civil Code of the People's Republic of China
Author: Huixing Liang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004216634
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This book is an English translation of the Draft Chinese Civil Code prepared by the Legislative Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences headed by Prof. Liang Huixing, which is officially mandated by the Legislative Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.

Towards a Chinese Civil Code

Towards a Chinese Civil Code
Author: Lei Chen
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004204873
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Currently, China is drafting its new Civil Code. Against this background, the Chinese legal community has shown a growing interest in various legal and legislative ideas from around the world. "Towards a Chinese Civil Code" aims at providing the necessary historical and comparative legal perspectives. The book addresses the following topics: property law, contract law, tort law and civil procedure.