Author : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Release : 2015-11-02
Genre : History
Kind :
Book Rating : 538/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

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.