Chinese Law

Li Chen, J.D. (Illinois 2002), Ph.D. (Columbia 2009), is Assistant Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies at University of Toronto. His publications on law and history include Chinese Law in the Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics, c. 1740s-1840s (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2015)Madeleine Zelin, Ph.D. (1979) University of California at Berkeley, is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published monographs, translations and articles on China, including The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2005)

• Introduction: Ways of Rethinking Chinese Law and HistoryPart I. Meaning and Practice of LawChapter 1. Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice – Jianpeng DengChapter 2. Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late-Qing and Republican China – Taisu ZhangChapter 3. Social Practice and Judicial Politics in “Grave Destruction” Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 – Weiting GuoChapter 4. Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and its Implications for Legal Practice and Principle – Janet TheissChapter 5. “Law Is One Thing, and Virtue Is Another”: Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai – Bryna GoodmanChapter 6. Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing – Zhao MaPart II. Production and Application of Legal KnowledgeChapter 7. The Community of Legal Experts in 16th- and 17th-Century China – Yanhong WuChapter 8. Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 – Ting ZhangChapter 9. Contestation over Legal Knowledge and Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China– Li ChenChapter 10. Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China – Margaret WanChapter 11. Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing – Daniel AsenChapter 12. Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law – Jennifer Altehenger