TY - BOOK AU - Zelin,Madeleine AU - Ocko,Jonathan K. AU - Gardella,Robert TI - Contract and property in early modern China SN - 0804746397 AV - KN858 C759 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Contracts KW - China KW - History KW - Right of property N1 - 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; HKBU library; YT2025 M10 ER -