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Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment

Carlitz, Katherine N.
Hegel, Robert E.

Paperback

Series: Asian Law, Book 18

Literary CriticismChinese HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0295989130
ISBN13: 9780295989136
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Feb 17 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In this fascinating, multidisciplinary volume, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and the arts of crafting persuasive texts in a range of documents including crime reports, legislation, novels, prayers, and law suits. Their focus is the late Ming and Qing periods (c. 1550-1911); their documents range from plaints filed at the local level by commoners, through various texts produced by the well-to-do, to the legal opinions penned by China's emperors.

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China explores works of crime-case fiction, judicial handbooks for magistrates and legal secretaries, popular attitudes toward clergy and merchants as reflected in legal plaints, and the belief in a parallel, otherworldly judicial system that supports earthly justice.

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