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The Limits of the Rule of Law in China

By Karen G. Turner, James V. Feinerman, R. Kent Guy

In The Limits of the Rule of Law in China, fourteen authors from different academic disciplines reflect on questions that have troubled Chinese and Western scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. Using data from the...

Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945

The Reception of Western Law

By Tay-sheng Wang

Taiwan’s modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People’s Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Western law during the 19th-century and when...

The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code

By Jiang Yonglin

After overthrowing the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), proclaimed that he had obtained the Mandate of Heaven (Tianming), enabling establishment of a spiritual orientation and social agenda for...

The Great Ming Code / Da Ming lu

By Yonglin Jiang

Imperial China’s dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cultural, and legal history. Until now, only the Tang (618–907 C.E.) and Qing...

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China

Crime, Conflict, and Judgment

By Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz

In this fascinating, multidisciplinary volume, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and...

True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China

Twenty Case Histories

By Robert E. Hegel

The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of criminal cases - most involving homicide - from late imperial China. These true stories of...

Law in Japan

A Turning Point

By Daniel H. Foote

This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a...