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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (2): 317–318.
Published: 01 February 1973
...Susan Mann Jones The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China . By John R. Watt . New York : Columbia University Press , 1972 . x, 340 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 317...
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Published: 01 February 2017
Figure 10. Proportion of counties with an assistant magistrate.
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in Conflicting Nostalgia: Performing The Tale of Ch'unhyang (春香傳) in the Japanese Empire
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 9. Drunken evil magistrate heckles Ch'unhyang while cross-dressed servants snicker. Reprinted with permission from the Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Museum.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Madeleine Zelin A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence: Fu-hui ch'üan-shu, a Manual for Local Magistrates in Seventeenth-Century China, by Huang Liu-hung . Translated by Djang Chu . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1984 . xvi, 656 pp. Glossary, Index. $37.50...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 392–394.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Susan Naquin The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China . By Madeleine Zelin . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . xviii, 385 pp. Tables, Note on Sources, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $35. Copyright © Association...
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Published: 01 February 2017
Figure 7. Magistrates assigned through the monthly lottery (by month).
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in Taxes, the Local Elite, and the Rural Populace in the Chinju Uprising of 1862
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2007
Figure 1. Map of Chinju District. Source: Chinju ŭpchi , 155. 1. Magistrate's Office, 2. Military Commander's Office of Right Kyŏngsang Province, 3. Kŭmtongŏ-ri, 4. Kasŏ-ri, 5. Chonghwa-ri, 6. Local school ( hyanggyo ), 7. Ch'ukkok-ri, 8. Sugok-ri, 9. Tŏksan-ri, 10. Market at the district seat
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Figure 10. Proportion of counties with an assistant magistrate. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 309–328.
Published: 01 February 1972
... are relatively simple and easily mastered. They include safeguarding the documents the vakil does maintain during a case; completion of applications to the court; copying of cause lists obtained from magistrates' clerks; updating the vakil's diary of pending cases; occasional copying of case material...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 345–366.
Published: 01 May 2013
... political voice through one ubiquitous yet understudied local institution, the pre-mortem shrine. Meant to express gratitude to good magistrates and prefects moving on to other positions, the shrines were suspect as flattering an official in hopes of return favors. To forestall accusations of such corrupt...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 1971
... the hypothesis that many prior conceptions of Chinese law of the Ch'ing period were inaccurate. Thus the article asserts that civil law matters were a substantial portion of all cases to come before the local magistrate. Furthermore, that the Chinese population was not terrified about bringing a case to court...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 499–526.
Published: 01 May 1986
... encouraged subletting and multiple tenancy, but appear to have provided little security of tenure. The large collection of lawsuits in the Baxian Archives allows an examination of the treatment of tenants in the magistrates' court and of the rights of persons who had disposed of land by means of conditional...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 967–1005.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Nancy E. Park Abstract Eighteenth-century chinese commentators were eloquent on the subject of official corruption, characterizing it as one of the greatest scourges on the Qing state and society. Xu Wenbi (n.d.), in an administrative handbook based on his experiences as magistrate of Yongchuan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 291–315.
Published: 01 May 1988
.... Qing neige dagu fazhi dangan [Legal archive of the Qing grand secretariat] . N.d. Taibei: Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology. Benyan Ruan . 1968 . Qiumu chuyan [Plain talk on being a magistrate]. 1887 preface. Reprint. Taibei : Wenhai . Shenbao (Shanghai) . 1954...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 227–244.
Published: 01 February 1964
... authority, see
T'ung-tsu
Ch'ü
, Local Government in China under the Ch'ing ( Cambridge , 1962 ), p. 206
, note 36. 2 The only punishment which a local magistrate was empowered to carry out himself was beating with bamboo or imposing the cangue. Cases involving penal servitude...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 267–270.
Published: 01 February 1958
..., 1949). 268 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES drably everyday subjects. Just as in the kung-an tales, the crimes seem more like those Perry Mason deals with than the routine of a county judge. The point of many if not most of the seventy-two double cases in the TYPS is that a wise magistrate refuses to judge...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (2): 314–317.
Published: 01 February 1973
... Shan. The English reader will find the work of these poets remarkably versatile, energetic, and sophisticated for that of a still very youthful movement. MAUREEN ROBERTSON University of Rochester The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China. BY JOHN R. WATT. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 289–303.
Published: 01 May 2022
... regardless of social status or gender. The openness of the Chosŏn legal system is richly documented in numerous litigation records and petitions submitted to local magistrates’ offices and to the state. Existing studies refer to people's use of this legal resource to resolve various disputes in Chosŏn Korea...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1060–1061.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of a host of new materials, such as the records of district magistrates, as well as the intensive reworking of materials that were known to exist but which were not understood very well. At present, most of those who study Chinese law believe that the Chinese were a pretty disputatious lot who did indeed...
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