Legal Pluralism in Qing China

Transplantation and Transformation

Author: Max Wong Series: Law and Society in China

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The author argues that under the Qing legal system the pluralistic normative orders were blended with the established state legal system to exert political and social control of the populace.

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The author argues that under the Qing legal system the pluralistic normative orders were blended with the established state legal system to exert political and social control of the populace.

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In this book, Max WL Wong provides a new perspective on legal pluralism under the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and provides an argument that in traditional Chinese legal culture the pluralistic normative orders were blended, in parallel with the established state legal system, to become a complexed administrative system exerting political and social control in Qing China.Specifically, he addresses these key questions. First, how were Chinese laws, and the quasi-legal norms that created a system of legal pluralism in Qing, reformed by the drive for legal modernization in the late Qing and Republican China as a response to the challenge of western laws? And second, how was the pluralistic structure of Chinese laws and norms in Qing China diffused and transplanted to Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia in the form of ‘Chinese customary law’? Also, how was Chinese law subdued by the imposed legal systems of the colonisers, mainly Great Britain and Japan?

About the Author

Max WL Wong, Ph.D., University of London, is a Visiting Fellow at the Philip KH Wong Centre for Chinese Law, University of Hong Kong and a Member of the Centre for Law in Asia, SOAS, University of London. He has published work on comparative law and human rights law and is the author of Chinese Marriage and Social Change (Springer, 2020).