Valerie Hansen is associate professor of history at Yale University.
This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation.
Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, language texts, and other anecdotal evidence to describe how contracts were actually used. She explains that the educated wrote their own contracts, whereas the illiterate paid scribes to draft them and read them aloud. The contracts reveal much about everyday life: problems with inflation that resulted from the introduction of the first paper money in the world; the persistence of women's rights to own and sell land at a time when their lives were becoming more constricted; and the litigiousness of families, which were complicated products of remarriages, adoptions, and divorces. The Chinese even armed their dead with contracts asserting ownership of their grave plots, and Hansen provides details of an underworld court system in which the dead could sue and be sued. Illustrations and maps enrich a book that will be fascinating for anyone interested in Chinese life and society.
發表於2025-01-11
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
我纔知道,敢情咱們中國官府早先是不承認契約的閤法性的。公元600年(隋朝)時,在土地所有權方麵還隻使用官方登記簿書記錄,私自轉讓一律非法。從“必須得到官方許可”到“隻承認私人契約為唯一憑證”,那已是公元1400年(明朝)瞭。這個過程走瞭整整八百年之久! 唐朝時,雖...
評分案:我對魯老師印象很好,很希望中國學者能多幾個魯老師這樣的人。必須考慮到這本書是韓老師多年前的作品,所以仍給四星。 書中幾處值得小小修改的附下: p.23, line 8th: 高昌(當時稱為“龜茲”)——高昌should be 吐魯番,庫車was named 龜茲at that time, those were tw...
評分沒有讀到該書,不敢妄加評論。但是在契約領域,似乎不應該忘記日本一係列殖民調查,雖然那些是在強烈的殖民背景下進行的,但其細緻豐富,以及現代法學概念與地方經驗的結閤方式非常值得重新認識。但可惜的是不但這些未引起中文英文世界重視,就連日本本土學者,也大多隻追溯到...
評分我纔知道,敢情咱們中國官府早先是不承認契約的閤法性的。公元600年(隋朝)時,在土地所有權方麵還隻使用官方登記簿書記錄,私自轉讓一律非法。從“必須得到官方許可”到“隻承認私人契約為唯一憑證”,那已是公元1400年(明朝)瞭。這個過程走瞭整整八百年之久! 唐朝時,雖...
評分這書讓洋人寫,有點可惜。作者自己的論述很多,引文嫌少。而且引的太雜,戲文裏的東西一大堆。我本來是很想看看傳統中國的契約精神的,可惜作者所論不多,再加上用的資料多是典田賣地賣兒鬻女的淒慘玩意和喪葬文書一類給鬼看的東西,正經的商業契約和官方文書都沒有多少,實在...
圖書標籤: 漢學 民間信仰 歷史 書中書 文書 宗教 契約 曆史
應該對後世研究有啓發,原著並不怎麼樣——魯西奇搞那麼多,求不堆料
評分應該對後世研究有啓發,原著並不怎麼樣——魯西奇搞那麼多,求不堆料
評分應該對後世研究有啓發,原著並不怎麼樣——魯西奇搞那麼多,求不堆料
評分應該對後世研究有啓發,原著並不怎麼樣——魯西奇搞那麼多,求不堆料
評分應該對後世研究有啓發,原著並不怎麼樣——魯西奇搞那麼多,求不堆料
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載