TY - BOOK AU - Zelin,Madeleine AU - Ocko,Jonathan K. AU - Gardella,Robert ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Contract and property in early modern China AV - KNQ858 .C665 2004eb U1 - 346.5104 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Contracts KW - China KW - History KW - Right of property KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-398) and index; A critique of rights of property in pre-war China; Madeleine Zelin --; Writs of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan; Myron L. Cohen --; Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China; Thomas Buoye --; Property, taxes, and state protection of rights; Anne Osborne --; The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts; Mark Allee --; The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China; Jonathan Ocko --; Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai; Feng Shaoting --; Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard; Madeleine Zelin --; Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China; Man Bun Kwan --; Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937; Tomoko Shiroyama --; Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns; Robert Gardella; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10056566 ER -