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Translational Encounter of Chinese and Western Law - George Jamieson's English Translation of Qing Family Law and Its Influence in Hong Kong.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Translational Encounter of Chinese and Western Law - George Jamieson's English Translation of Qing Family Law and Its Influence in Hong Kong./
Author:	Liu, Rui.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	367 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09A.
Subject:	Law. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27784087
ISBN:	9781392403730

Translational Encounter of Chinese and Western Law - George Jamieson's English Translation of Qing Family Law and Its Influence in Hong Kong.
Liu, Rui.

Translational Encounter of Chinese and Western Law - George Jamieson's English Translation of Qing Family Law and Its Influence in Hong Kong. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 367 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2019.

Based on a textual and historical investigation into George Jamieson's English translation of Chinese family law in the Qing Code, this research explores the fascinating encounter between Chinese and Western law in it and its long-lasting influence on the Hong Kong courts. By incorporating Roman and English law into his translation and commentary, Jamieson's work created a comparative legal world where they co-existed and interacted with Qing family law.Focusing on how this occurred, the thesis first reconstructs the historical context in which the translation was made and further initiates an in-depth micro-level observation of how the Western legal concepts found a niche in Qing law. With Said's Orientalist discourse that highlights East and West distinction as a point of reference, the thesis discovers Jamieson's complicated and even conflicting conceptualization of Chinese law, in which he presented both convergence and divergence between Chinese and Western law. While the latter was exploited as a mirror to refract the fatal problems in the former, the two also intertwined in such a way that facilitated a more equal dialogue. Not only passing through legal cultural borders, the translator also managed to travel back and forth in time by juxtaposing the then living Qing law with ancient law and early anthropological studies.Beyond this textual study the thesis explores the reception of Jamieson's translational work in the actual judicial context of Hong Kong. With a view to understanding its operation in the courts, the thesis probes the inner working of translation and paratexts, as well as the variety of external factors that interacted with his work, including English law, expert witnesses, as well as the changes in the Chinese community. The part Jamieson's translation eventually played in the courts in return refracts the outcome of these manifold interactions. Interestingly, Jamieson's translation of Qing family law, starting with the imperial encounter of Chinese and Western law, also received such an encounter in Hong Kong. The thesis thus not only fills a gap in the translation history of Qing law, but also sheds light on an untold chapter of Jamieson's translation in Hong Kong's judicial history.

ISBN: 9781392403730Subjects--Topical Terms:

600858
Law.
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Jamieson, George

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