| Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937 Contributor(s): Xu, Xiaoqun (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804755868 ISBN-13: 9780804755863 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - Law | Legal History |
| Dewey: 340.309 |
| LCCN: 2007049989 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book illuminates what judicial modernity actually meant to the Chinese state and society in the early twentieth century and how the judicial reform resulted in paradoxical consequences due to a lack of resources and a disjunction between the national reform agenda and local social ecology. |