Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History 9780824865184

Table of contents :
Contents
Note on Citations and Abbreviations
Foreword
Introduction :Thinking with Cases
PART 1: THE CASE IN LAW
1 .Satisfying Both Sentiment and Law: Fairness-Centered Judicial Reasoning as Seen in Late Ming Casebooks
2. Developing Forensic Knowledge through Cases in the Qing Dynasty
3 ,From Oral Testimony to Written Records in Qing Legal Cases
PART 2: MEDICAL CASE HISTORIES
4. Producing Medical Knowledge through Cases: History, Evidence, and Action
5. Facts in the Tale: Case Records and Pediatric Medicine in Late Imperial China
6. The Literary Fashioning of Medical Authority: A Study of Sun Yikui’s Case Histories
PART 3 :THE CASE IN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
7. How to Think with Chan Gong’an
8. Confucian ‘‘Case Learning’’: The Genre of Xue’an Writings
Appendix: Printed Sources Discussed in This Volume
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index