The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code
by ProQuest (Firm), Jiang, Yonglin
fromAsian law series
The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code
by ebrary, Inc, Jiang, Yonglin
fromAsian law series
This study challenges the conventional assumption that law in pre-modern China was used merely as an arm of the state to maintain social control and as a secular tool to exercise naked power.
The Great Ming Code: Da Ming lü
by Project Muse, Jiang, Yonglin
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
"Imperial China's dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cultural, and legal history. Until now, only the Tang (618-907) and Qing (1644-1911) codes have been available in English tr…
"Imperial China's dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cultural, and legal history. Until now, only the Tang (618-907) and Qing (1644-1911) codes have been available in English tr…