LEADER 04108nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910819048003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781417519401 010 $a0-8047-6694-0 010 $a1-4175-1940-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804766944 035 $a(CKB)111090425036642 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000130029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134885 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080316 035 $a(PQKB)11558094 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037481 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10056566 035 $a(OCoLC)923699709 035 $a(DE-B1597)581724 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804766944 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425036642 100 $a20031112d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aContract and property in early modern China /$fedited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2004 215 $avi, 398 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-4639-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [359]-398) and index. 327 $tA critique of rights of property in pre-war China/$rMadeleine Zelin --$tWrits of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan/$rMyron L. Cohen --$tLitigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China/$rThomas Buoye --$tProperty, taxes, and state protection of rights/$rAnne Osborne --$tThe status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts/$rMark Allee --$tThe missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China/$rJonathan Ocko --$tSupplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai/$rFeng Shaoting --$tManaging multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard/$rMadeleine Zelin --$tCustom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China/$rMan Bun Kwan --$tCompanies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937/$rTomoko Shiroyama --$tContracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns/$rRobert Gardella. 330 $aThe role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly the closely related institutions of contract and property, in Qing and Republican China, the papers in this volume spell out how these institutions worked in specific social contexts. Drawing on recent research in far-flung archives, the contributors take as givens both the embeddedness of contract in Chinese social and economic discourse and its role in the spread of commodification. Two papers deal with broad issues: Zelin's argues for a distinctively Chinese heritage of strong property rights, and Ocko's examines the usefulness of American legal scholarship as a comparative analytic framework. 606 $aContracts$zChina$xHistory 606 $aRight of property$zChina$xHistory 615 0$aContracts$xHistory. 615 0$aRight of property$xHistory. 676 $a346.5104 701 $aZelin$b Madeleine$0655334 701 $aOcko$b Jonathan K.$f1946-$01625988 701 $aGardella$b Robert$01625989 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819048003321 996 $aContract and property in early modern China$93961799 997 $aUNINA