Author: Huang, Philip C.C.
Title: Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv, 271 pp. Minor rubbing. Side page-edges bumped. VG. ¶ Contents: Defining Categories: Disputes & Lawsuits in North China Villages Before the Communist Revolution; Informal Justice: Mediation in North China Villages Before the Communist Revolution; Formal Justice: Codified Law & Magisterial Adjudication in the Qing; Between Informal Mediation & Formal Adjudication: The Third Realm of Qing Justice; Two Patterns in the Qing Civil Justice System; Extent, Cost, & Strategies of Litigation; From the Perspective of Magistrate Handbooks; Max Weber & the Qing Legal & Political Systems; Appendices.

Keywords: Chinese Legal History, Civil Law, Justice, Administration, Qing Era, China, East Asia, Jurisprudence, Social Sociology