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Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment

by Robert E. Hegel

Writing, law, and justice in late imperial China

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Writing, law, and justice in late imperial China

Centered on the late Ming and Qing periods, this scholarly collection examines how written forms shaped and reflected legal culture across Chinese society. Its subjects range from local plaints and crime reports to legislation, prayers, novels, judicial handbooks, and imperial legal opinions. The chapters also consider crime-case fiction, popular views of clergy and merchants expressed in legal complaints, and beliefs about an otherworldly court that paralleled earthly justice. Together, these topics connect the practical work of law with the craft of persuasion and the wider cultural meanings attached to judgment.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Chinese history and legal culture in the late Ming and Qing periods.
  • Those exploring connections among law, literature, religion, and written documents.
  • Students seeking a multidisciplinary introduction to historical Chinese legal texts and institutions.

Themes

Legal culture and written persuasionCrime, conflict, and judgmentLate Ming and Qing societyReligion and earthly justice

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Book overview

In this fascinating, multidisciplinary volume, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and the arts of crafting persuasive texts in a range of documents including crime reports, legislation, novels, prayers, and law suits. Their focus is the late Ming and Qing periods (c. 1550-1911); their documents range from plaints filed at the local level by commoners, through various texts produced by the well-to-do, to the legal opinions penned by China's emperors.

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China explores works of crime-case fiction, judicial handbooks for magistrates and legal secretaries, popular attitudes toward clergy and merchants as reflected in legal plaints, and the belief in a parallel, otherworldly judicial system that supports earthly justice.

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