| Titre | Le droit coutumier comme phénomène d'acculturation bureaucratique au Japon et en Chine | |
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| Auteur | Jérôme Bourgon | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 23, 2001 La coutume et la norme en Chine et au Japon | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | III. Coutumes, droit coutumier et droit civil |
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| Page | 125-143 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Customary law as a bureaucratic acculturation process in Japan and China
"Custom" and "Customary law" appeared in Japan and China as a result of the introduction of Western legal notions. Japanese jurists trained in Europe adapted theories construing custom as a primitive source of law, and they created the terms articulating these categories. Former fiefs officers, assisted by local élite, gathered collections of Japanese customs, which were neglected as soon as the Meiji civil code was achieved. However, this process was resumed by Japanese colonial rulers of Chinese territories like Taiwan. It inspired Chinese modernizers, when they had local customs collected and published in complement with the Republican civil code in 1930. Some Japanese historians, emulated by Chinese and Western scholars, deduced from these collections that a civil customary law had developed prior to the introduction of Western codes. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2001_num_23_23_1140 |
