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Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus: Routledge Studies in Asian Law

Autor Ernest Caldwell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2021
The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 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 administrative and social control.
This book utilizes both traditional texts and archeologically excavated materials to explore how these influential Qin legal institutions developed. First, it investigates the socio-political conditions which led to the production of law in written form. It then goes on to consider how the intended function of written law influenced the linguistic composition of legal statutes, as well as their physical construction. Using a function and form approach, it specifically analyses the Shuihudi legal corpus. However, unlike many previous studies of Chinese legal manuscripts, which have focused on codicological issues of transcription and translation, this book considers the linguistic aspects of these manuscripts and thus their importance for understanding the development of early Chinese legal thought.
Writing Chinese Laws will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, as well as Asian law and history more generally.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367445225
ISBN-10: 0367445220
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Asian Law

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction 2. Social Change and Written Law in Pre-Imperial China 3. Inscribing Control in Qin 4. The Anatomy of a Qin Legal Statute I 5. The Anatomy of a Qin Legal Statute II 6. Conclusion

Notă biografică

Ernest Caldwell is Assistant Professor in the School of Law at SOAS, University of London, UK. He specializes in legal history, environmental law, and public law in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

Descriere

This book utilizes both traditional texts and archeologically excavated materials to explore how the influential Qin legal institutions developed. Firstly, it investigates the socio-political conditions which led to the production of written law. It considers how the functions of written law influenced the linguistic composition of statutes.