Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code

Informationen zum Autor Jiang Yonglin is associate professor of East Asian languages and culture at Bryn Mawr College. He is the translator of The Great Ming Code ( Da Ming lu ). 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? 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

Product details

• Authors: Yonglin Jiang, Jiang Yonglin
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780295999029
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99902-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Asian Law; Asian Law Series; Asian Law; Asian Law SeriesAsian Law SeriesAsian Law SeriesAsian Law SeriesAsian Law SeriesThe Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories