Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400 by Valerie Hansen

Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400

Valerie Hansen

304 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates s...

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