Investigating Chinese Customary Practices in the Late Qing and Republican Period: Pluralistic Norms in Local Communities

Max WL Wong

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Pages:: 73–100

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004712652_005

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This chapter explores the relationship between the Chinese customary practices in the context of investigative reports in the late Qing and Republican China periods. This chapter investigates the impact of state laws at local levels in late imperial China and Republican China. Two important investigative reports were produced on local customs from the late Qing to the Republican period. During the late Qing, an official investigative project was launched to gauge local customary practices in all provinces, in order to help in drafting the Commercial Law and the Civil Law. In Republican China, reports on local customs were compiled by the South Manchurian Railway Corporation (operated by the Japanese authorities) in the occupied territories in China. Using the investigation on family law as an example, the chapter investigates the challenges of reforms in state laws on local norms and examines the responses of local communities to “Westernization” of the state legal system by comparing these reports.

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Legal Pluralism in Qing China

Transplantation and Transformation

Series: Law and Society in China, Volume: 2

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004712652

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Aug 2024

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