Loosing the Dragon: Charismatic Legal Action and the Construction of the Taiping Legal Order
This article develops the notion of legal charisma by analyzing the Taiping Rebellion in mid-nineteenth-century China. The concept of legal charisma seeks to capture those normally inchoate aspects of law that transcend its institutionalized incarnations and empower its subjects to act out visions o...
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| description | This article develops the notion of legal charisma by analyzing the Taiping Rebellion in mid-nineteenth-century China. The concept of legal charisma seeks to capture those normally inchoate aspects of law that transcend its institutionalized incarnations and empower its subjects to act out visions of the universal, often in anarchic and unpredictable ways. The article further suggests that such charismatic legal behavior, in spite of its anarchic qualities, provides an important means through which systems of legal authority revitalize and strengthen their hold over legal subjects. The Taiping Rebellion provides an example of both these facets of legal charisma; the rebellion drew on visions of collective empowerment inherent in a newly articulated legal code to act out a challenge to existing social institutions — even as this same code came to assert an ever-tightening grip on the lives of the Taiping population. |
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