Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols)

A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29283-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 126, 1416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2423 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.

Yates, Robin D.S.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Asien (inkl. Türkei und Naher Osten)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Ph.D (2001), Princeton University, is Professor of Chinese History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Artisans in Early Imperial China (UW Press, 2007).

Robin D.S. Yates, James McGill Professor of East Asian Studies, History and Classical Studies, McGill University (Ph.D Harvard, 1980) has published widely in the social and cultural history of early China, military science and technology, Chinese women, and Chinese law.