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| Author: | Marsh, R.M. |
| Title: | Weber's misunderstanding of traditional Chinese law |
| Journal: | American Journal of Sociology
2000 : SEP, VOL. 106:2, p. 281-302 |
| Index terms: | LEGAL SYSTEMS RATIONALITY CHINA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Using his ideal-types of the rationalization of legal systems, Max Weber classified modern Western European law as formally rational, and traditional Chinese law as substantively irrational. In light of recent research by specialistsin pre-20th-century Chinese law, Weber is shown to have had several serious misunderstandings. |
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