By investigating how a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chinese village became a legal and political exemplar as well as a series of cultural products presented on the national stage, this book examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. The book seeks a conceptual b...(展开全部)

By investigating how a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chinese village became a legal and political exemplar as well as a series of cultural products presented on the national stage, this book examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. The book seeks a conceptual b...(展开全部)

丛小平，美国休斯敦大学历史系终身教授，研究方向为20世纪中国社会、近现代思想史、文化史、法律史、近现代妇女史、近现代教育史。学术代表作包括Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940-1960（Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016）、Teachers’Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937 （Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 2007，中文版《师范学校与中国的现代化——民族国家的形成与社会转型:1897~1937》由商务印书馆于2014年出版）。

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system. Today, divorce may appear a private concern, when in fact it is a profoundly political matter—especially in a national context where marriage was and has continued to be a key vehicle for nation-state build...(展开全部)

This book is the first in a new series - Studies in Contemporary China - edited at the Contemporary Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. This pioneering study of the origins of the Chinese Communist Party's cultural policy and the development of the Chinese model of cultural modernization traces the development of Marxist literary theory in China a...(展开全部)

本书作者把研究对象确定在中国古代社会中的法律，以期对中国历史上的法律提供一种社会学的解释。在兼跨社会学、历史学、法律这三个学科领域之间，开创了法律史与社会史结合的研究范式，形成了一种新的学术研究体系，被称为“法律社会史”。本书是这一领域的经典著作，初版至今已60余年，并有作者自己的英文译本传世，在西方汉学界广有影响。

本书作者把研究对象确定在中国古代社会中的法律，以期对中国历史上的法律提供一种社会学的解释。在兼跨社会学、历史学、法律这三个学科领域之间，开创了法律史与社会史结合的研究范式，形成了一种新的学术研究体系，被称为“法律社会史”。本书是这一领域的经典著作，初版至今已60余年，并有作者自己的英文译本传世，在西方汉学界广有影响。

This study examines law enforcement within the context of Sung society. Professor McKnight shows that the group of criminals who were the core of the habitual criminal group in Sung China were young unattached males with few lifeskills. What became of the criminal after capture and conviction is also an important aspect of this study, which addresses basic questions in Chinese ...(展开全部)