| Description |
vi, 398 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-398) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Contracts -- China -- History.
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Right of property -- China -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zelin, Madeleine.
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Ocko, Jonathan K., 1946-
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Gardella, Robert.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0804746397 (alk. paper) |
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