Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Contract and the Establishment of Property Rights
6. 1. A Critique of Rights of Property in Prewar China 17
7. 2. Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: 37
8. 3. Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence: 94
9. 4. Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights 120
10. 5. The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts 159
11. 6. The Missing Metaphor: 178
12. Part 2. Contract and the Practice of Business
13. 7. Supplemental Payment in Urban Property Contracts in Mid to Late Qing Shanghai 209
14. 8. Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Salt Yard 230
15. 9. Custom, the Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China 269
16. 10. Companies in Debt: Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937 298
17. 11. Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: 327
18. Chinese Names and Terms 349
19. Bibliography 359
20. List of Contributors 379
21. Index 381