This is the link to a recently published article. My preliminary attempt to take stock of and reflect on existing scholarship on a set of interrelated, important, and often complicated issues in the field of late imperial Chinese legal history and governance.
openyls.law.yale.edu/entities/pub...
In a Confucian society like Qing China (1644–1911 CE), how often did people turn to the formal legal system to resolve disputes? To what extent did the empire become a “litigious society” despite the ...
