Law, state, and society in early imperial China
Subtitle: a study with critical edition and translation of the legal texts from Zhangjiashan tomb no. 247
By: By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Robin D.S. Yates
Contributors: Yates, Robin D. S., 1948- author
Series: Sinica leidensia -- 126
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng; chi
ISBN-13: 9789004292833; 9789004300224; 9789004300231; 9789004300538
Subjects: Sources; Cases; Law; Chinese Inscriptions; History
Description: "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. The Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases contains twenty-two legal case records, some of which have undergone literary embellishment."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.