| 书目名称 | Social Order through Contracts | | 副标题 | A Study of the Qings | | 编辑 | Jian Qu | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provides an in-depth study of ethnic villages in the frontier area of the huge empire of Qing.Presents an empirical and theoretical interpretation of the law and practice of contract in pre-modern Chi | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 frame | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Qingshui River Manuscripts; Contracts/Contract Law in China; Legal Culture in Qing China; Middlemen/Scr | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4947-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-33-4949-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-33-4947-6 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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