{"title":"The Case in the Vase: What Can a Ming Novel Tell Us about Traditional Chinese Legal Culture?*","authors":"M. Szonyi","doi":"10.3868/S020-006-017-0029-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S020-006-017-0029-1","url":null,"abstract":"The more than thirty legal disputes and cases mentioned in The Plum in the Golden Vase ( Jinpingmei ) make this late Ming novel an invaluable source for the study of law and legal culture in premodern China. This lecture illustrates that the cases in the novel describe in considerable detail each of the formal steps in the Ming process of legal adjudication. But the work also conveys the message that despite the formal process, the legal system does not deliver justice. However, an alternative system of justice that is mostly implicit in the text, the justice of a disinterested and moral Heaven, ultimately prevails. Finally, the contemporary implications of this traditional understanding of law and justice are explored.","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"12 1","pages":"621-625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/S020-006-017-0029-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48453051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lofty Expectations and Bitter Reality: Chinese Interpreters for the US Army during the Second World War, 1941-1945","authors":"Zach Fredman","doi":"10.3868/S020-006-017-0027-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S020-006-017-0027-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"12 1","pages":"566-598"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/S020-006-017-0027-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41474132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Life Meets Real Life: Chinese Women in Nation Building and State Making, 1934–1949","authors":"Xiaoping Sun","doi":"10.3868/s020-006-017-0026-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s020-006-017-0026-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"12 1","pages":"538-565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/s020-006-017-0026-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70241048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"6. Circumspect and Prospect","authors":"D. Kelley","doi":"10.12987/9780300135091-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300135091-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80800294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. After the Good War","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300135091-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300135091-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86932756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300135091-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300135091-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85744075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3. After the Great War","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300135091-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300135091-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83142437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Man Bun Kwan, Patriots’ Game: Yongli Chemical Industries, 1917–1953","authors":"M. Bian","doi":"10.3868/s020-006-017-0024-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s020-006-017-0024-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"12 1","pages":"514-518"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/s020-006-017-0024-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45124936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthew H. Sommer, and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions","authors":"Li Chen","doi":"10.3868/s020-006-017-0023-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/s020-006-017-0023-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"12 1","pages":"510-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/s020-006-017-0023-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41554406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Method, Logic, and the Debate about Western Zhou Government: A Reply to Lothar von Falkenhausen","authors":"Li Feng","doi":"10.3868/S020-006-017-0021-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3868/S020-006-017-0021-5","url":null,"abstract":"In response to Lothar von Falkenhausen’s contention that the Western Zhou government was hopelessly stuck in a kinship structure that operated in accordance with the order of aristocratic lineages, the present paper offers new theoretical grounds as well as new inscriptional evidence showing that the Western Zhou government was a bureaucracy invented precisely to allow the Zhou king to overcome or manipulate the restrictions imposed by a kinship structure, in order to achieve actual political and administrative goals. This is the central debate in the study of the Western Zhou government as the fountainhead of the long-standing Chinese political culture and institutions. To refute the ill-conceived “anthropological model” of the Western Zhou government, the paper carefully examines the logical confusions, the wrong methodological choice, and the misinformation about contemporaneous bronze inscriptions as well as about current archaeology exhibited in Falkenhausen’s review, thus reconfirming bases for a correct understanding of the Western Zhou government already offered in Bureaucracy and the State in Early China (Cambridge 2008). Furthermore, the paper discusses intellectual norms in book reviews in the West and China and offers new insights into the date of the Ling group of vessels, a central problem in the dating of Western Zhou bronzes. The paper provides an important cornerstone for future constructive studies of the Western Zhou government and the issue of bureaucracy in Chinese history.","PeriodicalId":41988,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of History in China","volume":"12 1","pages":"485-507"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3868/S020-006-017-0021-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49442791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}