The image construction of the advocate in the Qing Dynasty
Event time
19:00-20:30 on December 26, 2023
Event Guests:
You Chenjun. Speaker
You Chenjun.
You Chenjun, a native of Yongjia, Zhejiang, is a professor at the Law School of Chinese University, a doctoral supervisor, the director of the Legal Theory Teaching and Research Department, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jurist, selected as a Young Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education (2018), and serves as a standing director of the Chinese Legal History Society and the Standing Director of the Legal Sociology Professional Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association. His main research areas are legal culture, sociology of law, history of law, law and humanities, academic history of law, comparative law, and legal research. He has published more than 50 academic articles in Chinese and English in domestic and foreign academic journals such as "Legal Research" and Modern China, and published monographs "Gathering Litigation Disputes: The Discourse of "Healthy Litigation" in the Qing Dynasty and Its Expressive Reality", "The Textual Dissemination of Legal Knowledge: Daily Books and Social Daily Life in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", "11 Possibilities of Law: Dialogues with Chinese Legal Scholars", "Starting from Litigation Archives: China's Law, Society and Culture", etc., as well as the translation of "Minions: Scribes and Errands of Qing Dynasty County Ya" Sexuality, Law, and Society in the Late Chinese Empire.
Event Description:
Promote the book "Gathering Litigation Disputes: The Discourse of the Qing Dynasty's "Healthy Litigation Style" and Its Expressive Reality. The speaker will focus on the content of the relevant chapters in the book "Gathering Litigation and Disagreements", and explore the social and cultural background and institutional factors hidden behind the construction of the image of litigators at that time from the perspective of legal sociology.
Related Books:
"Gathering Litigation and Disputes: The Discourse of the Qing Dynasty's "Healthy Litigation" and Its Expressive Reality
In many different types of documents, such as local chronicles, official letters, and official documents of the Qing Dynasty, it is common to see records claiming that there was a "healthy style of litigation" in a certain area. The above phenomenon is in contrast to the argument that "no litigation" is the value orientation and typical feature of traditional Chinese legal culture, which has been emphasized by the academic circles in the past.
This book analyzes the writing of the "style of litigation" in historical documents from the different perspectives of textual dimension, discourse practice dimension and social practice dimension, and regards it as a kind of discourse full of power relations, arguing that this kind of discourse presents more of an expressive reality, and cannot be directly regarded as a completely truthful reflection of the historical and social status quo at that time. Some of the intended functions of the discourse, what other discourses are used by these subjects to cooperate, and what practical actions are taken that seem to be targeted.
This book strives to follow the academic interest of the research paradigm pioneered by Qu Tongzu, and practices the historical approach of law and social research in terms of methodology, and does not simply return to the historical scene of ancient China to restore the historical facts about the "style of healthy litigation" as the ultimate goal, but focuses on analyzing some important theoretical issues hidden behind the historical records of the "style of healthy litigation" with theoretical concern in the sense of social science, hoping to advance our understanding of traditional Chinese law and law from the historical dimension. In-depth understanding of society and the state.
In June 2022, the first printing of 2,000 copies was put into storage, 2,000 copies were reprinted in August, and 2,000 copies are currently reprinted for the second time. Since its publication last year, this book has been awarded the 2022 "Top Ten Governance Books" by "Rule of Law Weekend" and the second prize of the 4th Fangde Rule of Law Research Award. Recently, the book won the third "Han Depei Law Award" Youth Original Award.
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Peking University Press.
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