Law in Imperial China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law in Imperial China write by Derk Bodde. This book was released on 1967-02-05. Law in Imperial China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Law and Morality in Ancient China
Law and Morality in Ancient China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Morality in Ancient China write by R. P. Peerenboom. This book was released on 1993-02-11. Law and Morality in Ancient China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Huang-Lao thought, a unique and sophisticated political philosophy which combines elements of Daoism and Legalism, dominated the intellectual life of late Warring States and Early Han China, providing the ideological foundation for post-Qin reforms. In the absence of extant texts, however, scholars of classical Chinese philosophy remained in the dark about this important school for over 2000 years. Finally, in 1973, archaeologists unearthed four ancient silk scrolls: the Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao. This work is the first detailed, book-length treatment in English of these lost treasures.
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China write by Matthew Harvey Sommer. This book was released on 2000. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.
Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols)
Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols) write by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low. This book was released on 2015-11-02. Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China has been accorded Honorable Mention status in the 2017 Patrick D. Hanan Prize (China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the Association for Asian Studies) for Translation competition. In Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China, Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates offer the first detailed study and translation into English of two recently excavated, early Chinese legal texts. The Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year consists of a selection from the long-lost laws of the early Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE). It includes items from twenty-seven statute collections and one ordinance. The Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases contains twenty-two legal case records, some of which have undergone literary embellishment. Taken together, the two texts contain a wealth of information about slavery, social class, ranking, the status of women and children, property, inheritance, currency, finance, labor mobilization, resource extraction, agriculture, market regulation, and administrative geography.
The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law
The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law write by Geoffrey MacCormack. This book was released on 1996. The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the end of the eighth century A.D., imperial China had established a system of administrative and penal law, the main institutions of which lasted until the collapse of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1911. The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law studies the views held throughout the centuries by the educated elite on the role of law in government, the relationship between law and morality, and the purpose of punishment. Geoffrey MacCormack's introduction offers a brief history of legal development in China, describes the principal contributions to the law of the Confucian and Legalist schools, and identifies several other attributes that might be said to constitute the "spirit" of the law. Subsequent chapters consider these attributes, which include conservatism, symbolism, the value attached to human life, the technical construction of the codes, the rationality of the legal process, and the purposes of punishment. A study of the "spirit" of the law in imperial China is particularly appropriate, says MacCormack, for a number of laws in the penal codes on family relationships, property ownership, and commercial transactions were probably never meant to be enforced. Rather, such laws were more symbolic and expressed an ideal toward which people should strive. In many cases even the laws that were enforced, such as those directed at the suppression of theft or killing, were also regarded as an emphatic expression of the right way to behave. Throughout his study, MacCormack distinguishes between "official," or penal and administrative, law, which emanated from the emperor to his officials, and "unofficial," or customary, law, which developed in certain localities or among associations of merchants and traders. In addition, MacCormack pays particular attention to the law's emphasis on the hierarchical ordering of relationships between individuals such as ruler and minister, ruler and subject, parent and child, and husband and wife. He also seeks to explain why, over nearly thirteen centuries, there was little change in the main moral and legal prescriptions, despite enormous social and economic changes.
