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Informationen zum Autor Jiang Yonglin Klappentext This companion volume to Jiang Yonglin's translation of The Great Ming Code (2005) analyzes the thought underlying the imperial legal code. Was the concept of the Mandate of Heaven merely a tool manipulated by the ruling elite to justify state power, or was it essential to their belief system and to the intellectual foundation of legal culture? What role did law play in the imperial effort to carry out the social reform programs? "For students interested in these and other questions concerning Chinese law or religion in the late imperial period, Jiang's learned study should be an obvious starting point." -Leo K. Shin, Journal of Chinese Religions "A necessary correction to the conventional views." --Ziaoqun Xu, author of Frontier of History in China "Arguing against a scholarly tradition that sees Chinese law as a purely secular instrument of despotic power, Jiang Yonglin seeks to place that tradition in the context of a China-centered Chinese history... A learned and thoughtful work." --Michael Marme, Journal of Asian Studies Zusammenfassung Analyzes the code's underlying thought in terms of the spiritual and social agenda articulated by the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)! Zhu Yuanzhang. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction - Religion and Chinese Legal Cosmology 2. Early Ming Legal Cosmology - Embodying Heavenly Principle and Human Sentiment 3. The Great Ming Code and the World of Spirits - Regulating Rituals for Communicating with Deities 4. The Great Ming Code and the Human Realm - Creating Boundaries for the Ming Empire 5. The Great Ming Code and Officialdom - Rectifying Mediating Representatives 6. Conclusion - Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
