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    <title>Contract and property in early modern China</title>
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    <namePart>Ocko, Jonathan K.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Gardella, Robert.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Stanford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2004</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>A critique of rights of property in pre-war China / Madeleine Zelin -- Writs of passage in late imperial China : the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan / Myron L. Cohen -- Litigation, legitimacy, and lethal violence : why county courts failed to prevent violent disputes over property in eighteenth-century China / Thomas Buoye -- Property, taxes, and state protection of rights / Anne Osborne -- The status of contracts in nineteenth-century Chinese courts / Mark Allee -- The missing metaphor : applying Western legal scholarship the study of contract and property in early modern China / Jonathan Ocko -- Supplemental payment in urban property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai / Feng Shaoting -- Managing multiple ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard / Madeleine Zelin -- Custom, the code, and legal practice : the contracts of Changlu salt merchants in late imperial China / Man Bun Kwan -- Companies in debt : financial arrangements in the textile industry in the lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama -- Contracting business partnerships in late Qing and Republican China : paradigms and patterns / Robert Gardella.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>HKBU library</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M10</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Contracts</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Right of property</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KN858 C759 2004</classification>
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