Madeleine Zelin Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Contract and Property in Early Modern China Condition: New ISBN-10: 0804746397 EAN: 9780804746397 ISBN: 9780804746397 Publisher: Stanford University Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 02/18/2004 Description: The 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 676g Contributor: Madeleine Zelin (Edited by), Johnathan K. Ocko (Edited by), Robert Gardella (Edited by) Author: Madeleine Zelin Genre: Law & Politics Topic: Business & Finance Release Year: 2004 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
