Trial of Modernity
Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19973445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaoqun Xu (0009-0006-6787-2788, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 378 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Trial of modernity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11126/stanford/9780804755863.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4240330717 |
| Open Library | OL22664417M |
| ISBN | 9780804755863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This book examines the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. It offers an analysis of how judicial reform initiatives were envisioned and pursued by the central government from 1901 through 1937, how the various initiatives were, or failed to be, implemented at the provincial and county levels, and how the reform impacted judicial practices and power relationships in local society. The book sheds light on the reach of the Chinese state, and on the complex interactions between the judicial field and administrative field within the state system, and between them and local society. In that context, it illuminates what judicial modernity actually meant for the Chinese state and society, and why irregularities, abuses, corruption, and informal practices continued in spite of the reform
China · Context (archaeology) · Judicial reform · Language change · Modernity · Political science · Power (physics) · Scholarship · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Public Administration · Administration of Justice · Law reform
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |