Writing and law in late Imperial China :  crime, conflict, and judgment / 
edited by Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz. 
 - Seattle :  University of Washington Press,  (c)2007. 
 - 1 online resource (xv, 343 pages) 
 - Asian law series ;  no. 18 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Explaining the shrew : narratives of spousal violence and the critique of masculinity in eighteenth-century criminal cases /  Between oral and written cultures : Buddhist monks in Qing legal plaints /  Art of persuasion in literature and law /  Filial felons : leniency and legal reasoning in Qing China /  Discourse on insolvency and negligence in eighteenth-century China /  Poverty tales and statutory politics in mid-Qing fraud cases /  Indictment rituals and the judicial continuum in late Imperial China /  Reading court cases from the Song and the Ming : fact and fiction, law and literature /  Beyond Bao : moral ambiguity and the law in late Imperial Chinese narrative literature /  Genre and justice in late Qing China : Wu Woyao's Strange Case of Nine Murders and its antecedents /  Interpretive communities : legal meaning in Qing law /  Maram Epstein --  Janet Theiss --  Yasuhiko Karasawa --  Robert E. Hegel --  Thomas Buoye --  Pengsheng Chiu --  Mark McNicholas --  Paul R. Katz --  James St. André --  Daniel M. Youd --  Katherine Carlitz --  Jonathan Ocko. 
<br/><br/> Scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions consider the influence of the Ming and Qing dynasties legal culture on literature and the influence of literary conventions on the presentation of legal case. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780295997544 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021694798 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA728311  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013715406  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--History.--China<br/>Legal stories, Chinese--History and criticism.<br/>Legal composition.<br/>Law and literature.<br/>Law in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KNN440  / .W758 2007