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New Perspectives on the History of Ancient Chinese Legal Thought
Peking University Press · 2025
This book breaks with the traditional approach in which the history of Chinese legal thought was confined within the bounds of modern legal definition…
Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Celestial Learning and Law: An Exploration of the Original Path and Significance of "Modeling on Heaven" in Ancient Chinese Law from the Perspective of Celestial Learning
Peking University Press · 2025
This is a wide-ranging and ambitious book. The author provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between Heaven and law, and between Hea…
The Law Does Not Flatter the Noble, the Plumb Line Does Not Bend: The Concept of the Rule of Law in China's Institutions (English)
· 2026
"The law does not bend for the powerful; the plumb line does not yield to the crooked" is a famous saying from the Legalist classic Han Feizi, emphasi…
Legal Documents Unearthed in Dunhuang and the Western Regions and Studies of Ancient Chinese Legal System
China Legal Publishing House · 2025
As a vital corridor for exchanges between East and West in antiquity, the Silk Road carried not only enormous economic value but also a rich legal-cul…
法治与立法
Modern Press · 2025
This book covers Guan Zhong's approach to enriching the state and the people while governing by law, ancient China's first published written law, and …
Research on Newly Discovered Legal Documents of the Han and Tang Periods along the Silk Road
China Legal Publishing House · 2022
Since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many legal documents from various ancient periods and peoples have been discovered along the Silk Road. …
Studies in Chinese Studies (Volume 44)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2024
This book is a journal edited by Mr. Yuan Xingpei and sponsored by the Institute of Chinese Studies at Peking University, published twice a year; this…
The Intellectual World of the Ancient Chinese Legal System
Zhonghua Book Company · 2020
This book takes Heaven, the gods, the ruler and the people as the four basic forces that shaped ancient China's political and legal order, and argues …
Imperial Endorsement Cases of the Ming Dynasty
China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2026
Qin Shi Huang, who built the imperial system, established the principle that "all affairs under heaven, great or small, are decided by the sovereign,"…
Tattooing
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2020
To tattoo characters or patterns on the human body and rub ink into the wounds.
History of the Chinese Legal System
Peking University Press · 2025
This book offers a systematic account of China's nearly five thousand years of legal development, setting out the basic theories and core content of l…
A Brief History of the Development of Contracts in Ancient China (Hardcover) -- National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
This book is a scholarly study of the history of contracts in ancient China. Drawing on a combined analysis of transmitted and excavated documents and…
Collected Textual Studies on Annotated Legal Literature
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2017
A Textual Study of Legal Commentary Literature
Chinese Cultural Knowledge Reader: The Discovery of the Qin Bamboo Slips at Shuihudi, Yunmeng
Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2016
In elegant, vivid prose, simple and accessible language, and a richly illustrated format, this book introduces the laws of the Qin state, the marital …