The 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 ser...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Su, Li, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Zhang, Yongle (Editor), Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964- (Editor), Ryden, Edmund (Translator)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2018]
Series:Princeton-China series.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt20fw8c6
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Su Li
  • The constitution of the territory and politics of a large state / Su Li
  • Ancient china's cultural constitutionality / Su Li
  • Scholar-officials / Su Li
  • The mixed Han-Tang-Song structure and its moral ideal / Wang Hui
  • The symbolic and the functional / Liu han
  • The ideal of civilization / Wu fei
  • History, culture, revolution, and Chinese constitutionalism / Zhao Xiaoli
  • Response to my critics / Su Li.