Jonathan K Ocko
Biographic Data
| ID | 747175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan K Ocko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ocko |
| SIGNATURE | OCKO J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Comments on Our Paper
10.1017/S002191180900014X
State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of the "Rule of Law" in China and India
This paper uses the concept of the "rule of law" to compare Qing China and British India. Rather than using the rule of law instrumentally, the paper embeds it in the histories of state power and sovereignty in China and India. Three themes, all framed by the rule of law and the rule of man as oppositional yet paradoxically intertwined notions, organize the paper's comparisons: the role of a discourse of law in simultaneously legitimizing and con…
The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship to the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on economic and …
I'll Take It All the Way to Beijing: Capital Appeals in the Qing
Justice in chinese society was literally of cosmic importance. Traditional Chinese thinking considered man and nature organic elements of a seamless cosmic web. Injustice of any kind did not simply rend the web in one place but placed tension on the entire structure. To restore equilibrium, the injustice had to be perfectly redressed, no more, no less. To ignore the injury was to risk catastrophe. As one late-Qing official wrote, "The recent natu…
Province and Politics in Late Imperial China: Viceregal Government in Szechwan, 1898-1911
Bureaucratic Reform in Provincial China: Ting Jih-ch'ang in Restoration Kiangsu, 1867-1870
Bureaucratic Reform in Provincial China. Ting Jih-ch'ang in Restoration Kiangsu, 1867-1870
I'll Take It All the Way to Beijing: Capital Appeals in the Qing
Justice in chinese society was literally of cosmic importance. Traditional Chinese thinking considered man and nature organic elements of a seamless cosmic web. Injustice of any kind did not simply rend the web in one place but placed tension on the entire structure. To restore equilibrium, the injustice had to be perfectly redressed, no more, no less. To ignore the injury was to risk catastrophe. As one late-Qing official wrote, "The recent natu…
State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of the "Rule of Law" in China and India
This paper uses the concept of the "rule of law" to compare Qing China and British India. Rather than using the rule of law instrumentally, the paper embeds it in the histories of state power and sovereignty in China and India. Three themes, all framed by the rule of law and the rule of man as oppositional yet paradoxically intertwined notions, organize the paper's comparisons: the role of a discourse of law in simultaneously legitimizing and con…
Bureaucratic Reform in Provincial China: Ting Jih-ch'ang in Restoration Kiangsu, 1867-1870
Bureaucratic Reform in Provincial China. Ting Jih-ch'ang in Restoration Kiangsu, 1867-1870
Province and Politics in Late Imperial China: Viceregal Government in Szechwan, 1898-1911
I'll Take It All the Way to Beijing: Capital Appeals in the Qing
Justice in chinese society was literally of cosmic importance. Traditional Chinese thinking considered man and nature organic elements of a seamless cosmic web. Injustice of any kind did not simply rend the web in one place but placed tension on the entire structure. To restore equilibrium, the injustice had to be perfectly redressed, no more, no less. To ignore the injury was to risk catastrophe. As one late-Qing official wrote, "The recent natu…
The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship to the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity. Offering a new perspective on economic and …
Response to Comments on Our Paper
10.1017/S002191180900014X
State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of the "Rule of Law" in China and India
This paper uses the concept of the "rule of law" to compare Qing China and British India. Rather than using the rule of law instrumentally, the paper embeds it in the histories of state power and sovereignty in China and India. Three themes, all framed by the rule of law and the rule of man as oppositional yet paradoxically intertwined notions, organize the paper's comparisons: the role of a discourse of law in simultaneously legitimizing and con…
China (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)