The history and theory of legal practice in China : toward a historical-social jurisprudence / edited by Philip C. C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huang, Philip C., 1940- editor.

Bernhardt, Kathryn, editor.

Series:

The Social Sciences of Practice 3.

The Social Sciences of Practice ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--China--History.

Law.

Jurisprudence--China--History.

Jurisprudence.

Justice, Administration of--China--History.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Editor’s Introduction / Philip C. C. Huang

1 A Ming-Qing Transition in Chinese Women’s History? The Perspective from Law / Kathryn Bernhardt

2 Women’s Choices under the Law: Marriage, Divorce, and Illicit Sex in the Qing and the Republic / Philip C. C. Huang

3 Marriage, Law, and Revolution: Divorce Law Practice in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region / Yang Liu

4 从事实别居到法律别居: 清代到民国时期夫妻别居的权利和义务 (From De Facto Separation to Legal Separation: Rights and Obligations in Husband-Wife Separations from the Qing to the Republic) / Li Hongying

5 Representation and Practice in “Privately Settling Illicit Sex Offenses,” with Attention to the “Third Realm” from the Late Imperial Period to the Present / Jing Fenghua

6 Between Informal Mediation and Formal Adjudication: The Third Realm of Qing Civil Justice / Philip C. C. Huang

7 近代中国 “法律渊源” 中的 “习惯法” (“Customary Law” as the “Source of Law” in Modern China) / Yu Shengfeng

8 尸体危险的法外生成: 以当代中国的藉尸抗争事例为中心的分析 (Extralegal Origins of the Dangers of a Corpse: An Analysis of Case Examples of “Protesting with a Corpse” in Contemporary China) / You Chenjun

9 The System of “Turning Oneself In” in Qing and Contemporary China: Some Reflections on Legal Modernism / Jiang Zhengyang

10 Centralized-Minimalist Government: The Lake Weishan Issue and the Chinese Mediatory System of Government / Tian Lei

11 Sovereignty and “Civilization”: International Law and East Asia in the Nineteenth Century / Lai Junnan

12 以实践逻辑再阐释象征资本——基于象征资本的多重面向与运用 (Using the “Logic of Practice” to Explicate “Symbolic Capital”— Based on the Multiple Faces and Uses of Symbolic Capital) / Wang Haixia

13 Reconstructing Max Weber’s “Sociology of Law”: The Power of Idealism and the Limits of Objectivity / Lai Junnan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27644-0

OCLC:

884268402

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004276444 DOI