Writing Chinese laws : the form and function of legal statutes found in the Qin Shuihudi corpus / Ernest Caldwell.

"The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221 BCE-207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as the primary means for maintaining admini...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Caldwell, Ernest (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in Asian law.
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