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Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937
Xiaoqun Xu
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Hardback. This book illuminates what judicial modernity actually meant to the Chinese state and society in the early twentieth century and how the judicial reform resulted in paradoxical consequences due to a lack of resources and a disjunction between the national reform agenda and local social ecology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 658.
This is the first book in English on the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a large gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. It offers a richly-textured analysis of how judicial reform initiatives were envisioned and pursued by the central government from 1901 through 1937, how the various initiatives were, or failed to be, implemented at the provincial and county levels, and how the reform impacted judicial practices and power relationships in local society. Xu sheds new light on the reach of the Chinese state and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804755863
SKU
V9780804755863
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99-1
About Xiaoqun Xu
Xiaoqun Xu is Associate Professor of history at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. He is also the author of Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937 (2001).
Reviews for Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937
"This is an important book, not only for what it says about legal reform but also for what it says about the practice of modernity."—R. Kent Guy, China Review International "Trial of Modernity is a book that is extensively backed up and illustrated by numerous case studies based on the reading of a large corpus of archival material. ... Read more