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Talons and teeth : county clerks and runners in the Qing Dynasty / Bradly W. Reed.
LIBRA JS7352.A2 R44 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Bradly Ward, 1956-
- Series:
- Law, society, and culture in China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- County officials and employees--China--History.
- County officials and employees.
- History.
- China--Politics and government--1644-1912.
- China.
- Politics and government.
- Local government--China--History.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- Local Subjects:
- Local government--China--History.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- An in-depth study of county government personnel and informal administrative practice in the Qing dynasty and their implications for state-society relations in the late imperial era.
- Contents:
- 1 Illicit Bureaucrats 1
- 2 Clerks 31
- 3 Families, Friends, and Factions 76
- 4 Runners 122
- 5 Illicit Allies and the Magistrate's Men 160
- 6 The Economics of Justice 200
- 7 The Legitimacy of the Indispensable 246
- A Administrative Duties of Clerical Offices in the Ba County Yamen 269
- B The Jins of Ba County 271
- C Clerical Agreement on Mutual Support and the Dispensation of Legal Case Assignments 273
- D Case Fees and Three Fees Regulations 276
- E Division of Case Jurisdiction 280
- F District Runner Agreement on the Division of Cases 281.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Los Angeles).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804737584
- OCLC:
- 41960661
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