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Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China

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Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China - MacAuley, Melissa
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Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents. Litigation masters emerge as central players in many of the most scandalous cases in 18th- and 19th-century China.

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Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China 1998, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804731355

Hardcover