Law codes in dynastic China : a synopsis of Chinese legal history in the thirty centuries from Zhou to Qing / John W. Head and Yanping Wang.

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Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.

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25551

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Head, John W. (John Warren), 1953.

Wang, Yanping, 1969-

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Law -- China -- History.

Law -- China.

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1. The long reach of Chinese law --2. Confucianists and legalists --3. Legalist victory and defeat --4. The Tang code --5. Reenactment, displacement, revival: codification in the Song and Yuan dynasties --6. Codification reaches maturity: the Ming and Qing dynasties --7. Concluding observations: codification and Chinese legal history.

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9781594600395

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xvi, 261 pages : maps