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1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Series |
The Social Sciences of Practice Ser |
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The Social Sciences of Practice Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 The Principal Question -- 2 Some Basic Facts about the Ming Legal System and Legislation -- 3 The Main Sources of the Current Study: Judicial Casebooks from the Ming -- 4 The Methodology and Plan of This Study -- Chapter 2 Prefectural Judges in the Late-Ming Judicial System -- 1 Development of the tuiguan Post in Late Imperial China -- 2 The Role of Prefectural Judges in the Late-Ming Provincial Bureaucracy -- 2.1 Judicial Role -- 2.2 Other Roles |
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3 Prefectural Judges' Responsibility to Oversee the Courts of the County Magistrates -- 3.1 Problematic Rationale for Judicial Rulings -- 3.2 Inadequate Evidence Provided in Criminal Cases -- 3.3 Wrong Citation of Laws -- 3.4 Questionable Procedures during the Course of the Investigation or Hearing -- 3.5 Officials' Corruption or Negligence in Handling Cases -- 4 The Role of Cooperation between Prefectural Judges and Other Provincial Officials in Maintaining the Quality of Judicial Rulings in the Provincial Judiciary |
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5 Professionalism and Insistence on Independence of Prefectural Judges in Performing Their Judicial Duties -- Chapter 3 Favorable Institutional Circumstances for the Development of Judicial Professionalism -- 1 The Impact of the tui zhi xingqu Promotion Route and the Importance of Frontline Officials' Good Judicial Performance -- 2 The Increasing Demand for Junior Officials' Uniform Judicial Performance -- 3 The Increased Importance of Judicial Rulings in the Civil Service Examination since the Late-Wanli Era |
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Chapter 4 The Emergence of the Late-Ming Casebooks and Their Importance to Our Understanding of the Ming Judiciary -- 1 Why the Late-Ming Casebooks Matter -- 2 Development of the Chinese Casebooks Down to the Late-Ming Period -- 3 The State of Studies on Ming Casebooks -- 4 The Importance of Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu to Our Comparative Study of the Legal Development of Late-Ming China -- Chapter 5 Two Exemplary Samples of Late-Ming Casebooks by Prefectural Judges: Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu -- 1 Publishing Judicial Casebooks as a Key to Success |
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2 Yan Junyan, the Promotion-Seeking Casebook Writer -- 3 The Publication of the First Impression of the Mengshui zhai cundu in Light of the Prefaces by Cantonese Literary Leaders -- 4 The Southern Ming Hongguang Court and the Publication of the Second Impression of the Mengshui zhai cundu with the "Foreword" by Li Yue -- 5 Li Qing, the Profit-Making Casebook Writer -- 6 Li Qing's Excellent Connections with a Commercial Publisher and the Publication of Zheyu xinyu -- 7 The Intentions, Benefits, and Implications of Yan Junyan and Li Qing's Publishing Their Casebooks |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 6 The High Degree of Consistency of Judicial Rulings as Reflected in the Case Reports from Mengshui zhai cundu and Zheyu xinyu |
| Subject |
Judicial process -- China -- History
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Justice, Administration of -- China -- History
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Judicial process
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Justice, Administration of
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004442849 |
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9004442847 |
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