A Study of Legal Tradition of China from a Culture Perspective: Searching for Harmony in the Natural Order (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811945090)

Zhiping Liang, an eminent Chinese scholar of legal history, sociological jurisprudence, and comparative law, is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences & a professor at the School of Law, Zhejiang University. He received an LLB degree from Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 1982 and an LLM degree from the School of Law, the Renmin University of China, in 1985. He has visited many universities globally, including Columbia University, Harvard University, EHESS, Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Liang's writings on law and culture have influenced generations of Chinese students and young scholars. As a prolific writer, he has written and edited 20 books and numerous articles, including Explicating Law, Searching for the Natural Order---Studies of Chinese Legal Tradition from a Cultural Perspective, A Cultural Interpretationof Law, Customary Law in the Qing, On the Rule of Law and Rule of Virtue and Governing: Ideas of Achieving Good Governance in Ancient China.