Civil Law in Qing and Republican ChinaThis pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (1644 1911) and Republican (1911 1949) China dealt extensively with civil matters such as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance; and, moreover, did so in a consistent and predictable way. Drawing on records of hundreds of cases from local archives in several parts of China, it considers such questions as the relation between codified law and legal