Delivering Justice in Qing China: Civil Trials in the Magistrate's Court
Linxia Liang
Abstract
Traditional Chinese law, including Qing law, was often criticized as being inapplicable in civil trials, and it was often believed that the magistrate's court preferred mediation rather than decision-making. This volume challenges these views. With a detailed analysis of the Qing law codes and of 100 nineteenth-century case records from Baodi county, the volume examines much-debated issues such as the approach of Qing law to civil and criminal matters, punishment and mediation in civil trials, Confucius' preference for education and the idea of anti-litigation. This book brings a lawyer's pers ... More
Keywords: Traditional Chinese law, Qing law, civil trials, magistrates, mediation, Confucius, case records, Baodi county, criminal matters
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780197263990 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 | DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197263990.001.0001 |
