An edition of Social power and legal culture
(1998)
Social power and legal culture
litigation masters in late imperial China
by Melissa Ann Macauley
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Asserting 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.
These cases reveal the power of scandal to shape entire categories of law in the popular and official imaginations.
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Social power and legal culture: litigation masters in late imperial China
1998, Stanford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-398) and index.
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