edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.
Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2004.
1 online resource (vi, 398 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-398) and index.
A critique of rights of property in pre-war China / Madeleine Zelin -- Writs of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan / Myron L. Cohen -- Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China / Thomas Buoye -- Property, taxes, and state protection of rights / Anne Osborne -- The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts / Mark Allee -- The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China / Jonathan Ocko -- Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai / Feng Shaoting -- Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard / Madeleine Zelin -- Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China / Man Bun Kwan -- Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama -- Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns / Robert Gardella.
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