Constitution of Ancient China

How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal

A propos de l'auteur

Su Li (Zhu Suli) is a professor at Peking University Law School and a pioneering scholar in the sociology of law, law and economics, and law and literature in China. His many books include Rule of Law and Its Indigenous Resources, Sending Law to the Countryside, and Law and Literature.

Résumé

How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal

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"A bold theoretical exploration and systematic reinterpretation of ancient constitutionalism, this book forms a new space for the analysis of the Chinese political-legal system that encompasses the ancient in the modern."—Xiang Feng, Tsinghua University

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Su Li, Su Su Li, Zhu Suli
• Collaboration: Daniel A. Bell (Editeur), Zhang Yongle (Editeur), Edmund Ryden (Traduction), Ryden Edmund (Traduction)
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780691171593
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17159-3
• Pages: 304
• Thèmes: The Princeton-China Series; Princeton-China; The Princeton-China Series
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Autres; China, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / Asia / China, Ancient World, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Non-Western philosophy, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law