The T'ang code. Volume II, Specific articles /
This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most important legal text in East Asian history. Not only is it China's earliest law code to survive in its entirety, influencing all subsequent Chi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Chinese |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Princeton library of Asian translations.
Studies in East Asian law ; 10. |
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Access E-Book Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most important legal text in East Asian history. Not only is it China's earliest law code to survive in its entirety, influencing all subsequent Chinese law, but it has also served as a model for codes of law in other East Asian countries, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. This is the only translation of the T'ang code into a Western language. The first volume of the Code, published in translation in 1979, specifies the basic principles of T' |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: T'ang lú shu i. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (620 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400864591 1400864593 069160780X 9780691607801 |