Legal Practice in the Formative Stages of the Chinese Empire

An Annotated Translation of the Exemplary Qin Criminal Cases from the Yuelu Academy Collection
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31543-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 130, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

In Legal Practice, Ulrich Lau and Thies Staack offer a richly annotated translation of criminal case records from the pre-imperial period of Qin (between 246 BC and 222 BC) and shed new light on the Qin administration of justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lau, Ulrich

Staack, Thies

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Ulrich Lau (Ph.D. (1981), Humboldt University of Berlin) is Privatdozent (PD) for Classical Chinese studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published monographs and articles on the legal and social history of early China.

Thies Staack (Ph.D. (2015), University of Hamburg) is a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures” at the University of Heidelberg. He has published several articles concerning early Chinese manuscript culture with a focus on codicology and the reconstruction of bamboo manuscripts.