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Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China - Law, Society, and Culture in China Melissa Macauley
Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China - Law, Society, and Culture in China
Melissa Macauley
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.
456 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804731355 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 436 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 31 mm · 725 g |