This database collects legal archives of actual lawsuits during the Repuclican Era (1911-1949) from the archives of the Jiangjin District in the city of Chongqing with a strong focus on materials from the 1920s.
The first and second part of "China Judicial Archives Database (Jiangjin Volume)" to which Princeton users currently have access, consist of 12 categories with a total of 4330 volumes and about 270,000 pages of documents. The first part mainly includes six categories: debt disputes, tenancy disputes, marriage disputes, tax law, property, and sales disputes. The second part mainly adds theft, fraud, family disputes, smoking and drug abuse, and also supplements the six categories of the first part.