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Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Hardcover, New)
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Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Hardcover, New)
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The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when
acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This
volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role
in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and
transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to
present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of
day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on
economic and legal institutions, particularly the closely related
institutions of contract and property, in Qing and Republican
China, the papers in this volume spell out how these institutions
worked in specific social contexts. Drawing on recent research in
far-flung archives, the contributors take as givens both the
embeddedness of contract in Chinese social and economic discourse
and its role in the spread of commodification. Two papers deal with
broad issues: Zelin's argues for a distinctively Chinese heritage
of strong property rights, and Ocko's examines the usefulness of
American legal scholarship as a comparative analytic framework.
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