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5 produkter

1. 

   Research from Archival Case Records

   Law, Society and Culture in China

   Av Philip C.C. Huang, Kathryn Bernhardt

   Inbunden, 2014

   4190 kr

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   Legal history studies have often focused mainly on codified law, without attention to actual practice, and on the past, without relating it to the present. As the title—Research from Archival Case Records: Law, Society, and Culture in China—of this book suggests, the authors deliberately follow the …

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   Formalism and Pragmatism in American Law

   Av Thomas C. Grey

   Inbunden, 2014

   2208 kr

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   In Formalism and Pragmatism in American Law Thomas Grey gives a full account of each of these modes of legal thought, with particular attention to the versions of them promulgated by their influential exponents Christopher Columbus Langdell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Grey argues that legal …

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   History and Theory of Legal Practice in China

   Toward a Historical-Social Jurisprudence

   Av Philip C.C. Huang, Kathryn Bernhardt

   Inbunden, 2014

   3653 kr

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   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 …

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   Path to Sun Village

   Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-Revolutionary Society

   Av Chongqing Wu

   Inbunden, 2017

   3104 kr

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   This book is a product of over ten years of work. It addresses intermarriage circles, transformations of customs, the rise and fall supernatural forces, power relations among gods, ghosts and people in “synchronic communities,” and tongxiangtongye (same hometown, same industry) economies based on …

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   Dikes and Society in Rural China: The Jianghan Plain, 1788-2010s

   Av Jiayan Zhang

   Inbunden, 2025

   2819 kr

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   To feed an ever-growing population in a water-rich region, the people of the Jianghan Plain in Central China constantly built dikes and polders. As China’s political system changed dramatically from 1788 to the 2010s, the governance of Jianghan’s dikes and polders also changed, moving from indirect …