How a “New Legal History” Might Be Possible
Recent Trends in Chinese Legal History Studies in the United States and Their Implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6007964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chenjun You (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-202 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700412471589 |
| OpenAlex | W1989705403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
The study of Chinese legal history has undergone a tremendous change in the United States since the 1990s. Antiquated views and biased opinions of past decades have been rethought and criticized to a considerable extent. At the cutting edge of this new academic trend is the UCLA research group of Chinese legal history. Their scholarship as a whole exemplifies the features of what this article calls a “new Chinese legal history”—namely, conjoining the empirical (the extensive use of judicial archives in China) with the theoretical (drawing upon and dialoguing with well-established theories in social sciences), with the intention of formulating new and illuminating middle-level concepts. Moreover, their keen “historical sense” helps us understand the historical roots of contemporary problems, thus overcoming the epistemological problem of Chinese legal history studies often being regarded as useless
China · Contemporary history · Empirical legal studies · Epistemology · History of China · Legal history · Legal profession · Legal realism · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philosophy
Law and Society in Traditional China
East Asia
Law in Imperial China
Social Power and Legal Culture
Talons and Teeth
Contract and Property in Early Modern China
Civil Justice in China
Women and Property in China, 960-1949
Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China
Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy
Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
Law in Imperial China
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
The Cheese and the Worms. The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller
Archival Research in Qing Legal History
The Grand Secretariat Archives at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Qing County Archives in Sichuan
Qing Archival Materials from the Number One Historical Archives on Microfilm at the Genealogical Society of Utah
The Night Battles
Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China
Discovering History in China. American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Whither Chinese Law
Why Western Scholars of Chinese History and Society Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law
The Second Historical Archives, Nanjing
Between Informal Mediation and Formal Adjudication
Theory and the Study of Modern Chinese History
Some Aspects of Civil Procedure and Practice at the Trial Level in Tanshui and Hsinchu from 1789 to 1895
Order and Discipline in China
The Cheese and the Worms
The Night Battles
Weber's Misunderstanding of Traditional Chinese Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |