This volume analyzes whether China's thirty years of legal reform have taken root in Chinese society by examining how ordinary citizens are using the legal system in contemporary China. It is an interdisciplinary look at law in action and at legal institutions from the bottom up, that is, beginning with those at the ground level that are using and working in the legal system. I...(展开全部)

赵旭东，1965年生于河北省承德市，祖籍浙江省桐庐县。1992年毕业于河北师范大学，获心理学硕士学位，1998年毕业于北京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位，研究方向为社会人类学。现任职于北京大学社会学系、北京大学人类学研究所，同时受聘于南开大学历史学院，兼任客座研究人员。已 发表研究论文二十余篇。

赵旭东，1965年生于河北省承德市，祖籍浙江省桐庐县。1992年毕业于河北师范大学，获心理学硕士学位，1998年毕业于北京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位，研究方向为社会人类学。现任职于北京大学社会学系、北京大学人类学研究所，同时受聘于南开大学历史学院，兼任客座研究人员。已 发表研究论文二十余篇。

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by China's own lawmakers, first in the l...(展开全部)

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by China's own lawmakers, first in the l...(展开全部)

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by China's own lawmakers, first in the l...(展开全部)

The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by China's own lawmakers, first in the l...(展开全部)

To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing courts rarely handled civil lawsuits—those concerned with disputes over land, debt, marriage, and inheritance—as official Qing representations led us to believe? Is it true that decent people did not use the courts? And is it true ...(展开全部)

To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing courts rarely handled civil lawsuits—those concerned with disputes over land, debt, marriage, and inheritance—as official Qing representations led us to believe? Is it true that decent people did not use the courts? And is it true ...(展开全部)

[加]卜正民（Timothy Brook） 当代最著名的汉学家之一。多伦多大学文学士，哈佛大学文学硕士、哲学博士。历任多伦多大学、斯坦福大学等校教授，英国牛津大学邵氏汉学教授，现为加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院历史系教授。卜正民学术视野广阔，主要从事亚洲历史和文化的研究，研究领域涉及明代社会和文化史、二战时期日本在中国的占领、当代人权问题等。编撰著作（含合著合编）数种，主要有：《纵乐的困惑：明代的商业与文化》《为权力祈祷：佛教与晚明中国士绅社会的形成》《中国与历史资本主义：汉学知识的系谱学》《民族的构建：亚洲精英及其民族身份》《明代的社会与国家》《维梅尔的帽子：从一幅画看全球化贸易的兴起》《鸦片政权：中国、英国和日本，1839—1952年》《通敌：战时中国的日本代领与地方精英》《明清历史的地理动因》《亚细亚生产方式在中国》《杀千刀：中西视野下的凌迟...(展开全部)