The Great Ming Code / Da Ming Lu (Asian Law Series)

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. One of the most important law codes in Chinese history, the Ming Code regulated all the perceived major aspects of social affairs, aiming at the harmony of political, economic, military, familial, ritual, international, and legal relations in the empire and cosmic relations in the universe. Providing us with rich materials on Ming history, it is a fundamental source for understanding Chinese society and culture.

• | Author: Jiang Yonglin|Yonglin Jiang
• | Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 029599374X
• | ISBN-13: 9780295993744