Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China: Northern Taiwan in the Nineteenth Century

Author/Contributor(s):	Allee, Mark A
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/01/1994
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Based on case files, this study explores the social significance of the traditional Chinese legal system, and investigates how people utilized the courts during the course of criminal and civil disputes. The author emphasizes the ways in which law shaped social and economic change and how in turn the legal code and court system were adapted to local realities.