Download or read book Civil Law in Qing and Republican China written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of local archives to Western scholars in the 1980's has provided the basis for this reexamination of civil law in Qing and Republican China. This pathbreaking volume demonstrates that, contrary to previous scholarly understanding, Qing and Republican courts dealt extensively with such civil matters as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance, and did so with striking consistency and in conformity with the written code.