Conflict, community and crime in fin-de-siècle Sichuan
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The 350 legal cases from the ming'an ["cases of unnatural death"] category of the Ba County archive that survive from the final decade of the nineteenth century create a textured picture of social life and state-society relations at the grassroots near the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Close analysis of these cases enhances our understanding of the lives of ordinary people in the last decades of the old regime by untangling the webs of social relations, practices, and norms that bound people together and gave their actions meaning. At the same time, this study illuminates the role that local courts played, even at the end of the dynasty, in settling disputes and in enforcing the normative forms of authority that underpinned social order. Together, these chapters offer a vivid and unprecedented picture of life in late-Qing China. This study employs death to illuminate the webs of social life in the county. Despite the frequent opacity of the actual event (suicide, homicide or other violence), these acts explode into view the surrounding social connections and cleavages, revealing how both death and violence were instrumental in local life.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Javers, Quinn Doyle |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Henriot, Christian |
| Thesis advisor | Wigen, Kären, 1958- |
| Advisor | Henriot, Christian |
| Advisor | Wigen, Kären, 1958- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Quinn Doyle Javers. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2012 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Quinn Doyle Javers
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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