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Chinese Legal Tradition Under the Mongols: The Code of 1291 as Reconstructed
By (Author) Paul Heng-chao Ch'en
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Politics and government
951.025
Paperback
232
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
The evolution of China's legal tradition was one of the most striking aspects of the transformation of Chinese civilization under Mongolian domination. Paul Ch'en's exploration of the legal system of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and its first substantial legal code (the Chih-yuan hsin-ko, or Chih-yiian New Code) provides a key to our understanding