TY  - GEN
T1  - Circulating the Code : print media and legal knowledge in Qing China
A1  - Zhang, Ting (Legal historian)
LA  - English
PP  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1137179896
AB  - "Expanded dissemination of legal information during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) transformed Chinese law, judicial authority, and popular legal consciousness. This volume combines methodologies from the study of print culture and legal history to compare different official and commercial editions of the Qing Code, popular handbooks for amateur legal practitioners, and manuals for community legal lectures. It challenges the prevalent assumption that the Qing government monopolized the production and circulation of legal information and that local officials and the common people had little legal knowledge. During the Qing, most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. Commercial publishers thus had greater power and influence in producing authoritative legal texts-including The Great Qing Code-than did official publishers. These publishers extended the circulation of legal texts and enhanced the judicial authority of unofficial legal commentaries by making them more broadly available in convenient formats. Law was no longer privileged knowledge monopolized by the imperial state and high elites. Accurate legal information was widely available through text and oral channels in the Qing, and both officials and commoners had ready access to it. The flourishing trade in commercial legal imprints contributed to the formation of a new legal culture, with features that included the free flow of accurate legal information, the rise of nonofficial legal experts, a large law-savvy population, and a high litigation rate in local society"--
OP  - 252
CN  - KNN82 .Z484 2020
SN  - 9780295747170
SN  - 029574717X
SN  - 9780295747163
SN  - 9780295747156
KW  - Da Qing lü : Publication and distribution.
KW  - Da Qing lü
KW  - Legal literature : Publishing : China : History.
KW  - Law : Study and teaching : China : History.
KW  - China : History : Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
KW  - Droit : Étude et enseignement : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Chine : Histoire : 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China.
KW  - Law : Study and teaching
KW  - Legal literature : Publishing
KW  - Qing Dynasty (China)
KW  - China
KW  - 1644-1912
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -