The Internal Organization of Ch'ing Bureaucracy: Legal, Normative, and Communication Aspects (Harvard studies in East Asian law)

[by] Thomas A. Metzger. Bibliography: P. [437]-449. Abbreviations Contents Introduction CHAPTER I. The Normative Background of Law Making: Administrative Flexibility CHAPTER II. The Communication of the Laws CHAPTER III. The Formal Structure of the Law-making Process CHAPTER IV. The Law on the Administrative Punishment of Civil Officials Appendix I. T’ao Chu’s Memorials Appendix II. On Han Avoidance Appendix III. On the Ch’ing Penal Code Appendix IV. On Ling and Chih-shu Appendix V. On the Right to Memorialize Appendix VI. On Calculating Average Length of Tenure in the Grand Council Bibliography Glossary and Terminological Index General Index This work looks at the bureaucracy of the Ch'ing empire (1644-1912). By analyzing the laws dealing with administrative discipline as well as the ways in which these laws were made, communicated and argued about, it determines the nature of norms basic to the actualities of the Ch'ing administrative life. It relates these working norms to leading issues and ideas in the Confucian intellectual tradition