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Writing and law in late Imperial China : crime, conflict, and judgment / edited by Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (xv, 343 p.) - Asian law series ; no. 18 . - Asian law series ; no. 18. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and index.

Explaining the shrew : narratives of spousal violence and the critique of masculinity in eighteenth-century criminal cases / Between oral and written cultures : Buddhist monks in Qing legal plaints / Art of persuasion in literature and law / Filial felons : leniency and legal reasoning in Qing China / Discourse on insolvency and negligence in eighteenth-century China / Poverty tales and statutory politics in mid-Qing fraud cases / Indictment rituals and the judicial continuum in late Imperial China / Reading court cases from the Song and the Ming : fact and fiction, law and literature / Genre and justice in late Qing China : Wu Woyao's Strange Case of Nine Murders and its antecedents / Interpretive communities : legal meaning in Qing law / Maram Epstein -- Janet Theiss -- Yasuhiko Karasawa -- Robert E. Hegel -- Thomas Buoye -- Pengsheng Chiu -- Mark McNicholas -- Paul R. Katz -- James St. André -- Beyond Bao : moral ambiguity and the law in late Imperial Chinese narrative literature / Daniel M. Youd -- Katherine Carlitz -- Jonathan Ocko. Making a case : characterizing the filial son /

Scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions consider the influence of the Ming and Qing dynasties legal culture on literature and the influence of literary conventions on the presentation of legal case.


English.

ISBN: 9780295997544 ebook 0295997540

Source: 22573/ctvctb59v JSTOR

LCCN: 2021694798

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA728311 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013715406 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Law--History.--China
Legal stories, Chinese--History and criticism.
Legal composition.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Droit--Histoire.--Chine
Roman judiciaire chinois--Histoire et critique.
Rédaction juridique.
Droit et littérature.
Droit dans la littérature.
LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Asian--Chinese.
Law.
Law and literature.
Legal composition.
Legal stories, Chinese.
Law in literature.
Literatur
Recht
Rechtskultur
Législation--Histoire.--Chine
Droit et littérature.
Rédaction juridique.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China.
China
China.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

LC Class. No.: KNN440

Dewey Class. No.: 349.5109