Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China 9780804779272

This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (1644-1911) and Repub

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Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China 9780824862497

The division of household property in agricultural societies lies at the centre of the transmission of economic control

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Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China 9780824874018

Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that mar

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Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing 9781503616233

To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it

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At Home in the World: Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China 023118560X, 9780231185608

During the years spanning the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican era, the status of Chinese women changed in bot

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The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers 1498531687, 9781498531689

In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing governm

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Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China 0295749113, 9780295749112

Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing

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Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China 0295749113, 9780295749112

Although commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing

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Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods [Illustrated] 0674024494, 9780674024496

Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth thro

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Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China 0521393426, 9780521393423

This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length

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Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

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Philip C. C. Huang

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Law, Society, and Culture in China EDITORS

Philip C. C. Huang, Kathryn Bernhardt

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EDITED BY

Kathryn Bernhardt

Philip C. C. Huang CONTRIBUTORS

Mark A. Allee

Jing Junjian

Kathryn Bernhardt

Melissa Macauley

Alison W. Conner

Hugh T. Scogin, Jr.

Philip C. C. Huang

Madeleine Zelin

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