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050 00 $aKNQ1572$b.M33 1998
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100 1 $aMacauley, Melissa Ann.
245 10 $aSocial power and legal culture :$blitigation masters in late imperial China /$cMelissa Macauley.
246 18 $aSocial power & legal culture
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axii, 416 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLaw, society, and culture in China
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-398) and index.
505 00 $tChronology of Chinese Dynasties and Qing Reigns --$tIntroduction: Legal Culture and Historical Change --$g1.$tThe Evolution of a Crime and Its Punishments --$g2.$tStatecraft Legalism and Administrative Despair --$g3.$tMechanics of Litigation Mastery: Who, Where, How --$g4.$tA Clientele Empowered --$g5.$tThe Disputation of the Body Snatchers: Judicial Depravity and Legal Culture --$g6.$tEntrepreneurs of Power: Land, Lineage, and Litigation Mastery on the Southeast Coast --$g7.$tTrickster Tales: Cunning Power and the Invocation of an Alternative Male Ideal --$tConclusion: "Lawyer" Bashing and Litigation Loathing --$gApp.$tRuminations on Statistics for Litigation Rates in the Eighteenth Century.
520 $aAsserting that Litigation in Late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents for commoners and elites alike. Litigation masters - a broad category of legal facilitators ranging from professional plaintmasters to simple but literate men to whom people turned for assistance - emerge in this study as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century China.
520 8 $aThese cases reveal the power of scandal to shape entire categories of law in the popular and official imaginations.
650 0 $aJustice, Administration of$zChina$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122616
650 0 $aDispute resolution (Law)$zChina$xHistory.
650 0 $aProcedure (Law)$zChina$xHistory.
830 0 $aLaw, society, and culture in China.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94026189
852 00 $beal$hKNQ1572$i.M33 1998