Legal, Social, and Cultural Aspects of the Qing Dynasty: Expression and Practice of Civil Law

Author: Zongzhi Huang
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Features: As one of the series "Law, Society, and Culture in China," this book is one of the representative works of the renowned overseas Chinese scholar, Professor Zongzhi Huang. Through meticulous analysis of a large number of Qing Dynasty rural local archives and field survey data over more than ten years, the author reveals the logical relationship between official legal documents of the Qing Dynasty and actual judicial practices among the people, elaborates on the complex interactions between law, society, and culture in the Qing Dynasty, enriches the scope of research on the social history of ancient China, broadens the research perspective, and provides significant benefits for the work of domestic academia in similar research fields.