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Social Order through Contracts - A Study of the Qingshui River Manuscripts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Social Order through Contracts - A Study of the Qingshui River Manuscripts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book is the first Western-language monograph on the study of
the Qingshui River manuscripts. By examining over 3,000 contracts
and other manuscripts, this book offers constructive insights into
the long-standing question of how and why a society in late
imperial China could maintain a well-functioning social system with
few laws but many contracts, i.e., Hobbesian "words without sword."
Three interrelated questions, what contracts were, how and why they
worked, are explained successively. Thus, this book presents a
non-stereotypical "contract society" in southwest China, arguing
that the social order which provides predictability and regularity
for economic prosperity could be formed and maintained through
contracts even under the condition of relatively weak influence of
governmental and legal authorities. This book benefits readers who
are interested in law, society, and history. While presenting the
socio-legal landscape of a frontier area in late imperial China for
historians, this book provides a novel and empirical interpretation
of the supposedly well-known contract device for legal researchers,
thereby proposing materials for an integrated theoretical
explanatory framework of contracts in general. By employing the
innovative theory of blockchain in its key argumentation, the book
offers a creative interpretation of historical and social
phenomena.
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