Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus by Caldwell, Ernest

Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815396925)

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Format: Hardcover
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Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus by Caldwell, Ernest

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

$190.00
Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus by Caldwell, Ernest

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

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Ernest Caldwell
ISBN-10: 0815396929
ISBN-13: 9780815396925
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2018
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Ernest Caldwell
By Ernest Caldwell
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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.

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