Contract and Property in Early Modern China

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures Introduction Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan Ocko, Robert Gardella Part One: Contract and the Establishment of Property Rights Chapter 1 A Critique of Rights of Property in Pre-War China Madeleine Zelin Chapter 2 Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: The Documentation of Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan Myron Cohen Chapter 3 Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence: Why County Courts Failed to Prevent Violent Disputes over Property in Eighteenth-century China Thomas Buoye Chapter 4 Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights Anne Osborne Chapter 5 The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts Mark Allee Chapter 6 The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China Jonathan Ocko Part Two: Contract and the Practice of Business Chapter 7 Supplemental Payment in Urban Property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai Feng Shaoting Chapter 8 Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Saltyard Madeleine Zelin Chapter 9 Custom, The Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China Man Bun Kwan Chapter 10 Companies in Debt Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895{-}1937 Tomoko Shiroyama Chapter 11 Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: Paradigms and Patterns Robert Gardella Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Contracts China History, Right of property China History