The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law
The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law

Author: Sharron Gu

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 0773578331

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Gu's original perspective on legal history challenges established theories of law based on political science, sociology, and philosophy. She argues that language at a specific time and place determines how the law works in each culture. As each language accumulates too many meanings and connotations, the law becomes inflated by rulings, interpretations, and codified cases that overlap and contradict one another.

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220

Author: Denis Twitchett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-12-26

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 9780521243278

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This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians from Asia, Europe, and America have contributed chapters that convey a realistic impression of significant political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social developments, and of the contacts that the Chinese made with other peoples at this time. As the book is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist, technical details are given in both Chinese terms and English equivalents. References lead to primary sources and their translations and to secondary writings in European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese.

Thought and law in Qin and Han China
Thought and law in Qin and Han China

Author: Wilt Idema

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9004482857

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This volume brings together a number of important studies by leading scholars on various aspects of intellectual and institutional developments during the early Chinese empire. The subjects treated cover law and ritual (J.L. Kroll, Jacques Gernet, Léon Vandermeersch and M.J. Meijer), philosophy and religion (Derk Bodde, U. Libbrecht, Robert P. Kramers and E. Zürcher) and literature and entertainments (David Knechtges and Michael Loewe). Some contributions deal with aspects of the Han legacy to later Chinese culture (W.L. Idema and Harriet T. Zurndorfer). These studies are preceded by a biography and bibliography (Ph. de Heer) of Anthony F.P. Hulsewé in honour of whose eightieth birthday this Festschrift was compiled.

Sub Specie Historiae
Sub Specie Historiae

Author: John T. Marcus

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780838620571

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Consists of a series of related essays that deal with a new approach to historical-mindedness and a new way of understanding the distinguishing characteristics of Western civilization.

China's Early Empires
China's Early Empires

Author: Michael Nylan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-11-04

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0521852978

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Shows how recent archaeological discoveries have enriched our perception of the cultural history of China in the Classical era.

Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia

Author: Mark Edward Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1108982980

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Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also how their licit violence was entangled in the 'savage' or 'criminal' violence whose suppression justified their power. The East Asian cases are supplemented through citing comparable Western ones. The themes examined include the emergence of the warrior as a human type, the overlap of hunts and combat (and the overlap between treatments of alien species and alien peoples), sacrifice of both alien captives and 'death attendants' from one's own groups, the impact of military specialization and the increased scale of armies, the emergent ideal of self-sacrifice, and the diverse aspects of violence in the regime of law.