Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s (Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, 3)

Book info: Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s (Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, 3) (Hardcover, 408 pages) – Brill, 2015. Language: English.

The twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge in structuring social relations, property rights, popular culture, imperial governance, and ideas of modernity; they also provide insight into the roles of law and legal knowledge in giving form to an emerging revolutionary ideology and to policies that continue to affect China to the present day. Editorial Reviews About the Author Li Chen, J.D. (Illinois 2002), Ph.D. (Columbia 2009), is Associate Professor of History, Global Asia Studies, and Sociolegal Studies at University of Toronto. His publications on law and history include Chinese Law in the Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics, c. 1740s-1840s (Columbia University Press, 2016), which received Honorable Mention for the 2017 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award of the American Society for Legal History, and won the 2018 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize (for China) of the Association for Asian Studies. More information about his work can be found at utoronto.academia.edu/LiChenMadeleine Zelin, Ph.D. (1979) University of California at Berkeley, is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published monographs, translations and articles on China, includingThe Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2005)